Figure 9: The Large Synoptic-Survey Telescope will be built on the Cerro Pachón, a 2682-meter high mountain in the Coquimbo region, in northern Chile, going to be a part of the Cerro Tololo observatory, which already includes the Gemini South and the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope.
Figure 10: The major
components of the LSST
Land-based telescope
Observations by optical telescopes can be performed in terrestrial bases
(Figures 8-9-10),
both by means of space telescopes.