GC7B10 Deep Space (Traditional Cache) in New Mexico, United States created by Helodriver

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GC7B10 ▼

A cache by Helodriver Message this owner

Hidden : 7/31/2002

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Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the species Geocacher, their mission, to seek out a little black box, to find the coordinates that lead to it, to boldly explore the space around the VLA!

Deep in the great open spaces of the Plains of San Augustin, lies the Very Large Array, the world's premier radio astronomy observatory. Situated to recieve the faintest of signals of the universe's most enigmatic objects are 27 radio telescope dishes, which resolve images that pierce the veil of mystery that clouds deep space.

Hidden within the vast triange formed by its three long arms is your target, a black plastic box (see pic) filled with not moon rocks, not a quasar, not interstellar neutrinos, but...Toys! Small action figures, cars, airplanes and others await your discovery, making this a very child friendly cache. Karma Chamelion, the Blue lizard of happiness travelbug is also included as original contents. Do be careful in opening the box, don't open it too hard to keep from breaking the hinges and thereby preventing the box from closing!

But where is it? It's not at the coordinates at the top of the page, thats where to turn off of Hwy 60 to enter the facility. Follow the signs to the visitor center, that's where you'll have to go to find the answers to the ten questions about space and the Very Large Array. Answering these ten questions will assemble the Deep Space coordinates and send you across the galaxy (or at least a part of New Mexico) to the cache!

Write the answer to the question in the spaces provided. Then find the letter of the answer that is called for. The last digit of that letter's numer in the alphabet corresponds to the number in the coordinate of the cache.

Example Question: __ (__) __ __ __ is the final frontier.

Answer SPACE, the question calls for the second letter, it is the 16th letter of the alphabet, therefore the number in the coordinate would be 6. a slash ,/, denotes a space between words in the answer.

If the answer is a number, whatever digit is called for is what the coordinate digit is.

The questions are in order to fill out the coordinate
N 34.AB.CDE W 107.FG.HIJ

All answers are in the displays in the VLA visitor center, which is open every day from 8AM to sunset. Admission is FREE!

Good luck, may the force be with you!!

Deep Space Questions

A. __ __ __ / (__)__ __ __ is the site in New Mexico which has an antenna of the Very Long Baseline Array.

B. The __ __ __ __ __ __ __ (__)__ is the device buried underground that transmits the signals the antennas recieve to the main computers.

C. Each antenna weighs __ __ __ / (__)__ __ __.

D. The antennas are (__)__ / __ __ __ __ across.

E. __ __ __ __ __(__) / __ is one of the nearest radio galaxies to Earth.

F. The VLA antennas can be positioned in four possible (__)__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __, A, B, C, or D.

G. The Voyager 2 space probe first explored the giant planet __ __(__)__ __ __ __.

H. The German city of __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __(__) has the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope dish.

I. Voyager 2 discovered the __ __ __ __(__) / __ __ __ __ / __ __ __ __ on Neptune, a large storm in that planet's atmosphere.

J. The movie __ __(__)__ __ __ __ was filmed at the Very Large Array.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ybbx va n ebpxcvyr arne n srapryvar npebff gur ebnq sebz gur ovt fvta.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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