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July 11, 2018
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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
In this artistic composition, based on a real image of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole, a distant source emits neutrinos that are detected below the ice by IceCube sensors, called DOMs.
Credit: IceCube/NSF
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