"Chill Out" with UD's Antarctic Bloggers
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 21:21
in Astronomy & Space
It's summer at the South Pole now, with 24 hours of daylight. And that marks the high season for research, despite extreme temperatures hovering around 40 degrees below zero with the wind chill! James Roth and Chris Elliott, both senior electronics instrument specialists from the University of Delaware, and their international colleagues are working at South Pole Station now, helping to construct the world's largest neutrino telescope, named "IceCube," over a mile deep in the Antarctic ice sheet. Our UD research team is constructing the telescope's surface array of detectors called "IceTop."