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Jodrell Bank

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Jodrell Bank [ˈdʒɒdrəl]
n
(Placename) an astronomical observatory in NW England, in Cheshire: radio telescope with a steerable parabolic dish, 75 m (250 ft.) in diameter


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at Jodrell Bank is supposedly so powerful that it could detect a mobile phone signal from Mars.
And even if it hadn't been there, we would have needed the Jodrell Bank
In July 1969, the telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, were tracking the Americans' Eagle Lander carrying astronauts towards the moon's surface.
 
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