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South Pole Summer season starts

The first plane of the season arrives Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, at the IceCube research site. The experiment detects neutrinos at the South Pole, where winter recently came to a close. Photo by Heidi Lim.

The first plane of the season arrives Monday, Oct. 27, at the National Science Foundation's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, where winter just came to a close. The South Pole Station is the site of the IceCube experiment, which detects high-energy neutrinos. Photo by Heidi Lim.

IceCube is a vast neutrino detection experiment that uses Antarctic ice as part of the detector. Read more about it in a feature in symmetry, and get more information here.