Beyond Antarctica

Science at the edge of the world. A trip report from Antarctica, and explorations beyond the South Pole.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

I just started my trip to the Southern Hemisphere. My destination is Antarctica, 90 degrees South. The South Pole.

Posted by Karsten Heeger at 3:51 PM

Karsten Heeger: I am a particle astrophysicist studying neutrinos and dark matter. Our experiments are built deep underground: I have worked 2km deep in a nickel mine in Canada and in the mountains of Japan. We are building an experiment in an underground tunnel near the Daya Bay nuclear power plant in China, and have deployed detectors to search for dark matter 2.5km deep in the Antarctic ice. We do everything we can to get away from the disturbing cosmic rays.....

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