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  • Cos-Ray building, the recently installed AWARE experiment, and Observation Hill in background.
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  • Cos-Ray building with Ross Ice shelf and Black Island in background
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  • Cos-Ray workbench with inspired rendering
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  • Cos-Ray
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  • Cos-Ray
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  • The business end of the Cos-Ray detector can be seen inside the box.
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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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  • Cos-Ray "lounge"
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  • 1960's era Cos-Ray building located on the road between McMurdo and New Zealand's Scott Base.
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  • Wall mural of cosmic rays, and the old teletype machine used for recording/transmitting data.<br />
One of the three Cos-Ray neutron monitor stations at McMurdo was taken down in the 2014-15 season, and reinstalled at the Korean base Jang Bogo in December, 2015.  The other two stations will be removed in the 2016-17 season and installed at Jang Bogo in the 2017-18 season.
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  • Cos-Ray
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  • Cos-Ray
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  • The room where the Cos-Ray detectors are located. The NSF is in the middle of a multi-year process of moving the detectors to the Korean Jang Bogo Station.
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  • Cosmic mural?
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  • The Cosmic Ray detectors are located inside these unassuming insulated boxes
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  • Analog hardware
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  • More artwork found on site, made during what must have been a very long winter.
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  • Cosray building, housing the longest running experiment at McMurdo, since 1960.
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  • How to describe McMurdo Station. It’s the largest station in Antarctica by far, a sprawling place, functional and utilitarian, a work in progress since its beginnings before the 1957-1958 IGY. And it has character. As a photographer I'm drawn to the older structures, the early buildings housing Cosray and building 137, the quonset huts, and others like the BFC, FEMC shops and Paint Barn. These places have character, part of it is architectural, and part is how these utilitarian shells have been adapted into unique living and work spaces by the people who use them.
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  • Antarctic Meteor Radar array (2019) located between McMurdo Station and Scott Base, Antarctica, on the site of the now removed CosRay building, the experiment moved to the Korean Station. The radar senses meteors over a 250 kilometer radius from the array, with an average height of about 90 kilometers, and counts approximately 2000 meteors per day.
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