Inside the Muon Telescope Building, TIFR Ooty (IMAGE)

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Inside the Muon Telescope Building, TIFR Ooty

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The GRAPES-3 muon telescope, the largest and most sensitive cosmic ray monitor recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicated a crack in the Earth's magnetic shield

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TIFR

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