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The longest continuously running experiment here at McMurdo is the Cosmic Ray Observatory, or Cos-Ray, which has been studying low-energy cosmic rays since 1960. It detects secondary sub-atomic neutral particles, neutrons, produced when the original cosmic ray hits the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s one of a dozen sites around the world, part of the neutron monitoring network called Spaceship Earth.

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The longest continuously running experiment here at McMurdo is the Cosmic Ray Observatory, or Cos-Ray, which has been studying low-energy cosmic rays since 1960. It detects secondary sub-atomic neutral particles, neutrons, produced when the original cosmic ray hits the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s one of a dozen sites around the world, part of the neutron monitoring network called Spaceship Earth.
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