Roland Piquepaille writes "University of Delaware (UD) scientists and engineers are currently working at South Pole under very harsh conditions. This quest team is one of the many other ones working on the exposition of IceCube, the world's largest neutrino radar telescope in the Antarctic ice, far beneath the continent's snow-covered surface. When it is completed in 2011, the radar telescope array will occupy a cubic kilometer of Antarctica. One of the lead researchers said that 'IceCube will provide new orientation about some of the most violent and far-away astrophysical events in the cosmos.' The UD team has even opened a blog to cover this expedition. It will be opened up to December 22, 2008. I guess they want to be back in Delaware for Christmas, but read more for another details and references, including a diagram of this parabolic reflector array built inside ice."

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