Updated July 25, 2011
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In case you're wondering what that huge golf ball is on the right side of this image, that is the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Boeing-built Sea-Based X-band Radar. This bizarre object is actually a ship. The dome houses a remarkably powerful and precise radar system that can track something the size of a baseball thousands of miles away. At a cost in the neighborhood of one billion dollars, this mobile radar facility is designed to track missiles, not baseballs. It is in port in Seattle for several months undergoing a variety of power and redundancy upgrades.
More information [SeattlePI].
After reading about this monster, I realized I had seen it before.
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| Aerial view on approach into Seattle/Tacoma International airport |
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| Aerial on departure from Honolulu International Airport |
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| A closer view |
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| A closer view from the shuttle boat |
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| Back in Hawaii November 26, 2012, viewed from Blaisdell Park |
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