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Dark Sector

The Dark Sector at South Pole houses three main science buildings: MAPO, SPT and IceCube.

 

Huge news recently came from a project housed in SPT (South Pole Telescope). The project, BICEP2, discovered evidence of the rapid expansion of the universe (essentially lingering gravity waves from the Big Bang). SPT is the building in the back with the huge telescope. The building in the foreground is MAPO and looks at similar things as SPT does.

 

Ice Cube is not in the image. Ice Cube has hundreds of 'doms' in the ice that detect neutrinos.

 

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Uploaded on May 18, 2014
Taken on May 6, 2014