The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is hunting particles in Antarctica Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF
Particles spotted by a giant balloon in Antarctica can’t be explained by our current understanding of physics, a thorough analysis has determined. Now the race is on to figure out what they are.
In 2006 and then again in 2014, NASA researchers using the (ANITA), a balloon equipped with a particle detector, picked up a signal that didn’t make sense. They had spotted evidence of high-energy particles travelling at an angle suggesting they had just whizzed through the planet unimpeded.
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