New science lab unveiled at south pole
Posted December 23, 2010 7:59 pm.
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One of the world’s coldest places has become the home of one of the world’s most sophisticated physics observatories.
Located more than a kilometre underground at the heart of the south pole, scientists inside the building will be working on unravelling the mysteries of the universe.
The ice-cube lab is home to one of the world’s largest neutrino observatory where physicists will study sub-atomic particles from space in the hopes of finding dark matter – the invisible material which makes up most of the universe.
The structure, which took more than a decade and cost over $270 million to build, consists of more than 5,000 basketball-sized optical sensors suspended by cables below the surface of the ice.
