The extremes science will go

AFP Published December 24, 2010
The IceCube cable pull team poses outside the lab during the finishing of the IceCube array.
The IceCube cable pull team poses outside the lab during the finishing of the IceCube array.
The final Digital Optical Module (DOM) IceCube project members pose with the final Digital Optical Module (DOM) to be deployed in the IceCube array.
The final Digital Optical Module (DOM) IceCube project members pose with the final Digital Optical Module (DOM) to be deployed in the IceCube array.
The final DOM IceCube project member Matthias Danninger of Stockholm University assists in the deployment of the final DOM in the IceCube array.
The final DOM IceCube project member Matthias Danninger of Stockholm University assists in the deployment of the final DOM in the IceCube array.
The IceCube lab on the the Antarctic tundra near the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
The IceCube lab on the the Antarctic tundra near the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
The final DOM IceCube project members deploy a DOM in the IceCube array.
The final DOM IceCube project members deploy a DOM in the IceCube array.
The final DOM descends down a bore hole in the ice as it is deployed in the IceCube array.
The final DOM descends down a bore hole in the ice as it is deployed in the IceCube array.
The final DOM IceCube project members pose with the final DOM to be deployed in the IceCube array.
The final DOM IceCube project members pose with the final DOM to be deployed in the IceCube array.
The final DOM is prepared to be deployed in the IceCube array.
The final DOM is prepared to be deployed in the IceCube array.

IceCube array, the world's largest neutrino observatory, built under the Antarctic tundra near the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, finished after a decade of toil on December 18, is located 1,400 metres underground and will help scientists study space particles in the search for dark matter, invisible material that makes up most of the Universe's mass. The cube is a network of 5,160 optical sensors which will detect the blue light emitted when a neutrino crashes into ice at almost the speed of light.

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