LMT

1. local mean time.

Example Sentences

Urgent action is needed to “guarantee the operation of a flagship project of Mexican science,” LMT Director David Hughes and five other researchers wrote in a 19 March letter to Mexico’s finance secretary, Rogelio Ramírez de la O.

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Perched on top of a 4600-meter-high dormant volcano in southern Mexico, the LMT is the world’s largest single-dish steerable telescope designed to observe radio signals at millimeter wavelengths, which carry information about the universe’s cold clouds of gas and dust.

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The LMT’s size and location have made it a key component of the EHT, says Ivan Martí-Vidal, an astronomer at the University of Valencia who works with the EHT.

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In 2018, the Mexican government agreed to provide the LMT with $9 million over 3 years to cover Mexico’s share of the telescope’s operating costs.

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In 2020, however, the government eliminated and restructured some of those trust funds, creating uncertainty about LMT’s future funding.

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