Experiment Near South Pole Reveals How Earth Blocks High-Energy Particles Produced by Nuclear Reactions (image)

Penn State

Caption

A cable with a string of neutrino decectors being lowered down into one of the deep holes in the ice near the South Pole during the installation of the IceCube telescope.

Credit

NSF/B.Gudbjartsson

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