The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
No less than 64 12-meter antennas located at an elevation of 16,400 feet in Llano de Chajnantor, Chile
Imaging instrument in all atmospheric windows between 1 cm and 350 microns
Array configurations from approximately 150 meters to 10 km
Spatial resolution of 10 milliarcseconds, 10 times better than the VLA and the Hubble Space Telescope
Able to image sources arcminutes to degrees across at one arcsecond resolution
Velocity resolution under 0.05 km/s
Faster and more flexible imaging instrument than the VLA
Largest and most sensitive instrument in the world at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths
Point source detection sensitivity 20 times better than the VLA