Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle
A global constellation of neutrino detectors is creating a never-before-seen view of the radioactive elements that power Earth’s tectonic heat engine.
A global constellation of neutrino detectors is creating a never-before-seen view of the radioactive elements that power Earth’s tectonic heat engine.
The short version
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What happened
The JUNO experiment, located outside the city of Guangzhou in China, is expected to report its first geoneutrino detections this year. In a laboratory 2 kilometers underground, a crane lowers Matt Depatie , a detector technologist, through a hatch into a white-walled cavern filled with about 7,000 tons of ultrapure water that glows as blue as wiper fluid in the light.
Why it matters
“Splashdown,” Depatie says over a radio as he steps into an inflatable raft waiting below.
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