Hole in the Antarctic Ice

Ice Tube

Into a finished 1.5-mile-deep tube (above), technicians lower a string of 60 light-sensing modules into the water below. Once frozen, they can never be retrieved.

Each string of sensors (illustration below) carries data to a computing center at the surface.

Images: IceCube/University of Wisconsin-Madison/NSF

Hole in the Antarctic Ice

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