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IceCube Neutrino Telescope

Posted by michael on from the more-neutrino-news dept.

AMANDA writes: "Ice Cube is a neutrino telescope located at the south pole. It has just received the congressional support for $15 million dollars from the NSF. It will be the largest scientific instrument in the world. It promises a view into the most energetic phenomena in the universe." The idea is to use a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice as a detector. Impressive.

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  1. Seismic stability? by seletz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder how the keep the ice from wandering/changing.

    As in glaciers, I suppose that antarctic ice is constantly changing (or at last i think so). And 1Km^3 of ice is quite a big mass.

    Just my $.02 tough...

    1. Re:Seismic stability? by seletz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well, ok. Basically this means that the whole area is quite stable (because of not being located near any tectonic folds/bounds).

      Ok, now what about the ever changing nature of ice itself? I mean, this ice built up due to snow falling on the surface and then beeing compressed slowly to ice. In this month's german edition of Scientific American there's an article 'bout that somewhere here.

      Ice keeps on "flowing" like some liquid, but only slower (way slower). What about the tension built up because of that? Ice is brittle, don't constantly keep cracks and canyons build up?