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Neptune’s south pole

Voyager 2’s post-encounter view of Neptune’s south pole as the spacecraft sped away on a southward trajectory.
JPL manages the Voyager project for NASA’s Office of Space Science.

Neptune’s south pole

Voyager 2’s post-encounter view of Neptune’s south pole as the spacecraft sped away on a southward trajectory.

JPL manages the Voyager project for NASA’s Office of Space Science.

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∞ April 26, 2012 at 09:02am

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IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Built over a decade at a cost of $271 million, is buried under the South Pole. The world’s largest neutrino observatory is taller than the collective height of the world’s three tallest skyscrapers.

IceCube is operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the National Science Foundation, with funding provided by the United States, Belgium, Germany, and Sweden. Researchers from Barbados, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom are also involved in the project.

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∞ January 27, 2012 at 11:20am

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antarctica

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∞ January 17, 2012 at 08:00pm

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Construction of the world’s largest neutrino observatory completed

The last of 86 holes had been drilled and a total of 5,160 optical sensors are now installed to form the main detector—a cubic kilometer of instrumented ice—of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the National Science Foundation’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

From its vantage point at the end of the world, IceCube provides an innovative means to investigate the properties of fundamental particles that originate in some of the most spectacular phenomena in the universe.

In the deep, dark, stillness of the Antarctic ice, IceCube records the rare collisions of neutrinos — elusive sub-atomic particles — with the atomic nuclei of the water molecules of the ice. Some neutrinos come from the sun, while others come from cosmic rays interacting with the Earth’s atmosphere and dramatic astronomical sources such as exploding stars in the Milky Way and other distant galaxies.

Trillions of neutrinos stream through the human body at any given moment, but they rarely interact with regular matter, and researchers want to know more about them and where they come from. Icecube is among the most ambitious scientific construction projects ever attempted.

Image: (top) Sensor descends down a hole in the ice as part of the final season of IceCube. (bottom) The IceCube neutrino observatory is designed so that 5,160 optical sensors view a cubic kilometer of clear South Polar ice.

• Source: Full story at NSF • See also: Berkeley Lab