23.11.2007 17:21 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

IceCube neutrino detector set to image Earth's core

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Following the Dr. Dre free medical clinic and Eazy E public "[censored]" library, the final founding member of pioneering gangsta rap group NWA has at last been given his due, with scientists at the South Pole currently putting the finishing touches on an ambitious project known as the IceCube neutrino detector. Consisting of thousands of sensors that will occupy a cubic kilometer of ice upon completion, the machine is being built well below the Pole's surface, and will be used to detect neutrinos from outer space which have been trapped below the Earth's crust. The image that these scattered neutrinos produce o

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