Estimating the amount of sea ice is limited by its complex composition. Image : Heiner Kubny Researchers have just developed a new method for studying the extent of pack ice, using fiber optic lines – an ingenious idea that uses accessible technology in an...
The network of antennas operated by KSAT is located at a total of 25 sites. This allows signals from space to be picked up anywhere and relayed to appropriate destinations on Earth, such as NOAA’s SWFO mission center. Image: KSAT Auroras are a dreamlike magical...
IceCube is the largest neutrino observatory in the world and consists of over five thousand optical detectors draped through a cubic kilometer of ice at the geographic South Pole. IceCube was built specifically to study cosmic neutrinos coming from outside our own...
Only the framework and the base of the new observatory on the Belgrano II Antarctic Station are yet in place, but the telescope is scheduled to be installed as early as 2022/23 and put into operation soon thereafter (small image). Picture: CONICET / UNAHUR Antarctica...
