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QMAP was a balloon-borne telescope to survey the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It was flown twice in 1996. Subsequently, the instrument was adapted and used for ground-based observation, then named the Mobile Anisotropy Telescope (MAT, or MAT/TOCO for the actual observing program, TOCO for its location on Cerro Toco, Chile).