NASA's asteroid detection system ATLAS can now search entire dark sky every 24 hours

With the addition of two new observatories in South Africa and Chile, the ATLAS system has expanded its reach to the southern hemisphere from the two existing northern-hemisphere telescopes on Haleakalā and Maunaloa in Hawai'i. Each of ATLAS' four telescopes is capable to image a swath of sky 100 times larger than the full moon in a single exposure.

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