Caption: Two digital optical modules (DOMs) freeze into place in an IceTop tank on the surface of Antarctica. The IceTop array is a part of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an enormous telescope that is using high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays to learn about distant cosmological events like supernovas and gamma-ray bursts.
Photo by: Tom Gaisser / IceCube and the University of Delaware
Date: December 2008
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Caption: A large hose reel supplies hot water to the specially-designed drill, located in the Tower Operations Structure (center), used to bore deep holes into the Antarctic ice to construct the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. This enormous telescope is using high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays to learn about distant cosmological events like supernovas and gamma-ray bursts. Visible in the background is the blue IceCube Lab, where computers collect, archive, and sort the massive quantities of data produced by the telescope.
Photo by: Jim Haugen / IceCube and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: December 2008
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Caption: The hot water hose and support cables disappear down one of the dozens of boreholes drilled into the Antarctic ice to construct the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. This enormous telescope is using high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays to learn about distant cosmological events like supernovas and gamma-ray bursts.
Photo by: Jim Haugen / IceCube and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: December 2008
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