Plate 8: View of the LHC from the air.
Plate 8: Mountains and Lake Geneva frame a mystic scene.
The circular path of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has a circumference of 27 km, and stretches from Geneva's airport into the French countryside.
Some image processing has been committed here; in reality the machine is underground.
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This aerial view is from the CERN image library, which calls this image (CERN-SI-0107014) "The scale of the LHC," and adds, "The area under which the tunnel for CERN's LHC can be found is shown near to Geneva and lac Leman. The French Alps with Mont Blanc can be seen in the background."
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