IceCube telescope under construction
source: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/IceCube_telescope_under_construction_999.html
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The telescope -- called IceCube -- will occupy a cubic kilometer of Antarctica when it is completed in 2011, said University of Delaware Professor Thomas Gaisser, one of the projects lead scientists.
IceCube will provide new information about some of the most violent and far-away astrophysical events in the cosmos, said Gaisser, who is managing the deployment of the telescopes surface array of detectors, known as Ice Top.
The telescope consists of kilometer-long -- 0.62-mile -- strings of 60 optical detectors frozen more than a mile deep in the Antarctic ice, the scientist said. Atop each string of deep detectors is a pair of 600-gallon IceTop tanks, each containing two optical detectors.
IceCube will provide new information about some of the most violent and far-away astrophysical events in the cosmos, said Gaisser, who is managing the deployment of the telescopes surface array of detectors, known as Ice Top.
The telescope consists of kilometer-long -- 0.62-mile -- strings of 60 optical detectors frozen more than a mile deep in the Antarctic ice, the scientist said. Atop each string of deep detectors is a pair of 600-gallon IceTop tanks, each containing two optical detectors.
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idealist
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daaaamn! they are going all out! good for them! lets hope all of the ice around there telescope dosent melt. cause that would make them look silly. lol
- 3 years ago
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