Digital Optical Module gets deployed in the IceCube array.
Downgoing firn drill.
The last Digital Optical Module in the IceCube array descends into the ice December 18th.
A sensor gets sent down a hole in the ice as part of the final season of IceCube.
The IceCube Lab at the South Pole,
Antarctica.
Taking calibrations before a Digital Optical Module descends into the ice.
Building the Digital Optical Module (DOM)
The deployment team lowers an optical sensor into an IceCube hole in the ice.
Insertion of a hose into a hole.
Down going hose.
DOM descending a hole
A reconstruction of path of the light using the times of detection. Red displays the first hits, the others are shown in orange, yellow, and green
A diagram of the IceCube DOM array and a Cerenkov cone of blue light passing through. The multicolored dots indicate the location of a neutrino that has been detected by the modules as it passes through the array.