This IceCube Nuetrino Observatory is located in the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station in Antartica. This telescope consists of thousands of DOMs, or, Digitaln Optical Modules. These DOMs contain photomultiplier tubes and a computer that sends data received to the counting house. DOMS are lowered into the ground as deep as 2,450 meters. These holes are drilled into the ice using a hot water drill. This neutrino telescope is looking to detect the point sources of nuetrinos which could possibly tell us where the highest cosmic energy rays are originated. This telescope is very skilled not in detecting the number of netrinos, but the few neutrinos that it does detect is in very high resolution.
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