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Deep in Brazil's Amazon jungle, more than a hundred miles from the nearest city, stands South America's tallest structure, the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO). Reaching 325 meters (or 1,066 feet) into the sky above the trees, the ATTO is taller than the Chrysler Building or the Eiffel Tower.
Built in a collaboration between Germany's Max Planck Institute and Brazil's National Institute for Amazon Research, the tower will be equipped with high-tech instruments and an observatory to monitor relationships between the jungle and the atmosphere beginning in July. According to the institutes, ATTO will gather data on heat, water, carbon gas, winds, cloud formation and weather patterns.
The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO), pictured in
Sao Sebastiao do Uatuma in the middle of the Amazon forest in Amazonas
state, Brazil, on January 8. The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory is a
project of Brazil's National Institute of Amazonian Research and
Germany's Max Planck Institute, and will be equipped with high-tech
instruments and an observatory to monitor relationships between the
jungle and the atmosphere from next July.
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The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory stands in the middle
of a wide swath of the Amazon forest in Brazil, photographed on January
9.
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A worker paints the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory on January 10.
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Looking down from the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory on January 10.
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A view of treetops extending to the horizon, seen from the ATTO on January 10.
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A worker wearing a safety harness paints part of the
ATTO in Sao Sebastiao do Uatuma in the middle of the Amazon forest on
January 10.
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Researchers at the ATTO site in Brazil's Amazonas state on January 9
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Researchers talk next to the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory on January 9.
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The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory, pictured during a sunset on January 8
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The ATTO beneath the stars, photographed on January 8
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