Wednesday, January 27, 2010

People at the South Pole: Tilo

Tilo is a scientist from Berlin. He works on IceTop, the surface counterpart to IceCube. On top of each string of IceCube, there is a tank of ice outfitted with a pair of DOMs to monitor cosmic rays. On a good day, you will find him flying around on a snowmobile going from tank to tank checking up on them. Once the IceCube construction finishes, all we will be able to see are computers and some of the IceTop tanks that for some reason don't accumulate much snow.

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