An international team of scientists is working under Antarctica’s snow-covered surface to build the world’s largest neutrino telescope.
The telescope — called “IceCube” — will occupy a cubic kilometer of Antarctica when it is completed in 2011, said University of Delaware Professor Thomas Gaisser, one of the project’s lead scientists.
“IceCube will provide new information about some of the most violent and far-away astrophysical events in the cosmos,” said Gaisser, who is managing the deployment of the telescope’s surface array of detectors, known as “Ice Top.”