Exploring Sunspot, New Mexico
A Short History of Sunspot and the Observatory.
Sunspot, New Mexico, a small community in the Sacramento Mountains, was established in 1856 by a rancher named Don Francisco Montes de Oca. The Sunspot Solar Observatory was constructed in 1947 by the Army Air Core to study the sun and its effects on Earth’s atmosphere. After being shut down in 1955, the N…
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