The CTA North Site: Our Northern Eye on the High Energy Universe

Capturing particle showers from a gamma ray that interacts with the Earth s atmosphere is a pretty big challenge. That s why CTA will use two arrays of telescopes to explore the entire night sky: one in the northern hemisphere (CTANorth) and one in the southern hemisphere (CTASouth). In this film, CTANorth Site Manager, Paolo Calisse, will introduce you to the northern site, which is located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, a Spanish island in the Canary Islands. This is the secon