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  • Inside the IceCube Laboratory at the South Pole.  There are over 5400 sensors in total looking for light stemming from high-energy particles created from cosmic ray or neutrino interactions.  Some of the cables, one for each light sensor, that feed data to a central computer are visible in this picture.  The IceCube observatory is remarkably robust, taking data with 99.9% uptime.  Occasionally, something does need maintenance or repair.  That means a trip of about 800 meters from the station to the IceCube Laboratory to track down the component that needs attention.
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  • Inside the IceCube Laboratory at the South Pole.  There are over 5400 sensors in total looking for light stemming from high-energy particles created from cosmic ray or neutrino interactions.  Some of the cables, one for each light sensor, that feed data to a central computer are visible in this picture.  The IceCube observatory is remarkably robust, taking data with 99.9% uptime.  Occasionally, something does need maintenance or repair.  That means a trip of about 800 meters from the station to the IceCube Laboratory to track down the component that needs attention.
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  • On the rooftop of the IceCube Lab a scaled map of the IceCube sensor array - a cubic kilometer of sensors buried in the ice 2 kilometers below the lab.
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  • On the rooftop of the IceCube Lab a scaled map of the IceCube sensor array - a cubic kilometer of sensors buried in the ice 2 kilometers below the lab.
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  • Polar Plateau with flags marking the location of IceTop surface array of DOM sensors, part of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
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  • IceCube Lab, the cylinder is a duct where the cables run into the lab from the thousands of DOM’s buried a mile below in the ice.
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  • IceCube Lab, the cylinder is a duct where the cables run into the lab from the thousands of DOM’s buried a mile below in the ice.
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  • John Hardin and Kael Hanson at IceCube Lab
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  • IceCube Laboratory
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  • IceCube Laboratory as seen on approach when walking the 1 kilometer from the South Pole Station
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  • IceCube Laboratory, the cylinders at each end of the lab are where the cables come into the building. These cables provide power and two-way communication to allow data to be sent to and received from the DOM light sensors a mile below the surface.
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  • Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the distance during the 1 kilometer walk from IceCube Laboratory.
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  • IceCube Laboratory
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  • Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the distance during the 1 kilometer walk from IceCube Laboratory.
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  • Polar Plateau with flags marking the location of IceTop surface array of DOM sensors, part of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
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  • IceCube Laboratory, photographed from the roof of the Dark Sector lab, South Pole. The Lab is framed by a sun halo produced by sunlight streaming through ice crystals suspended in the air. The IceCube Laboratory is the operations center for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
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  • IceCube Laboratory, photographed from the roof of the Dark Sector lab, South Pole. The Lab is framed by a sun halo produced by sunlight streaming through ice crystals suspended in the air. The IceCube Laboratory is the operations center for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
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  • Computers inside the IceCube laboratory constantly monitor the messages from the DOM light sensors.  When predefined conditions indicate a passing particle has been detected, the data are stored.  This happens almost 3000 times per second.  Once or twice a month, a very high energy neutrino event is seen.  Within a minute , an alert is sent to world-wide observatories so they can detect exotic astrophysical objects in flaring or otherwise active states. This happened on September 17, 2017, with the blazar TXS0506+056.
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  • South Pole Station on walk back from IceCube Lab
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  • IceCube Neutrino Telescope Counting Laboratory on my first full day at Pole, framed with a sun halo.
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  • South Pole Station on walk back from IceCube Lab
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  • Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on walk back from IceCube Lab
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  • Computers inside the IceCube laboratory constantly monitor the messages from the DOM light sensors.  When predefined conditions indicate a passing particle has been detected, the data are stored.  This happens almost 3000 times per second.  Once or twice a month, a very high energy neutrino event is seen.  Within a minute , an alert is sent to world-wide observatories so they can detect exotic astrophysical objects in flaring or otherwise active states. This happened on September 17, 2017, with the blazar TXS0506+056.
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