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Polar Neutrino Observatory Takes a Big Step Forward
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Robert Paulos, Associate Director for Engineering and Project
Support, holds one of the optical sensing modules that comprise the detector.
Credit: Peter West, National Science Foundation
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A firn drill is used to melt snow at the surface in preparation for a novel hot-water drill that is used to make the deep holes for strings of light sensors.
Credit: Peter West, National Science Foundation
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A worker takes a sensor from the shelves at the South Pole drilling site.
Credit: Peter West, National Science Foundation
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Terry Bensen, with the IceCube project, watches the drilling equipment come up from the hole.
Credit: Peter West, National Science Foundnation
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Detectors are frozen in place nearly 1.5 miles deep in the ice.
Credit: Peter West, National Science Foundation
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