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Comments on Gigapan: IceCube Drill Camp and IceCube Lab Awaiting Sunset

  2. GigapanMagazine.org Will open in a new tab or window vol 1 issue 2 Contributors: Camille Parisel and Erik Verhagen It is the day before sunset at the South Pole. IceCube Drill Camp is deserted and cold. During the summers of 2004 to 2008, hundreds of scientists and ice drillers were at the South Pole for this massive project. Their mu...

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  1. Ella Derbyshire

    Ella Derbyshire (August 29, 2009, 04:08PM )

    IceCube is looking for neutrinos, which are very high-energy particles thrown off at the time of cataclysmic events in the universe. The collapse of a star, with a supernova, and the formation of a black hole or a neutron star would produce a burst of neutrinos that this telescope would hopefully detect.

  2. Denis Stalens

    Denis Stalens (March 20, 2009, 04:16AM )

    brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :p