Call it a telescope, call it a detector, or call it an observatory — it?s all the same to the University of Wisconsin scientists at the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory, which is now the world?s largest neutrino research array. Constructed between 2005 and 2010, the IceCube array consists of 86 identical holes, drilled 1.5 miles deep, scattered throughout the ice and filled with extremely sensitive particle physics monitoring equipment.
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