SKA needs people it can count on

05 August 2015 - 02:04
By Farren Collins

With South Africa to become home to the world's biggest data producer - the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope - the project's director says more local scientists will be needed to interpret the data. Once complete, the SKA telescope in the Karoo will produce data at a rate equivalent to all the internet traffic in the world.

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