Parkes Observatory

Murriyang, the 64-meter Parkes radio telescope in central-west New South Wales, seen from the visitor area in 2009 with its open mesh dish tilted toward the sky. In operation since 1961, it was the prime receiving station for television from the Moon in July 1969: because it was larger than the other stations it captured more signal, and NASA used its pictures for most of the Apollo 11 moonwalk telecast.