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Date Taken:

February 5, 2009

Photograph By:

Henry Malmgren, NSF

License Type:

Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

The Dark Sector at the South Pole is an area devoid of light and radio wave interference. The row of red objects in the lower center is the IceCube drill camp, containing the main heating equipment for the hot water drilling machinery for the IceCube neutrino detector. The blue building with two silver towers contains the computer equipment associated with IceCube. The South Pole 10-meter Telescope is in the upper left corner. The building at top center is the Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory (MAPO) building. All these facilities contain telescopes examining the origins of the universe.

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Aerial, Antarctica, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Buildings, Cargo, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0., Cosmology, Creative Commons, Dark Sector, Geographical South Pole, IceCube, MAPO, Neutrino, NSF, Polar Plateau, Pole, South Pole, South Pole Station, SPT, Station, Telescope, Visibility

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