printed with permission of the National Science Foundation
The Underground Lab is actually a series of different laboratories situated at different levels throughout the old Homestake Mine. There are plans for a lab at the 300 ft. level, the 4,850 ft. level, the 7,400 ft. level, and another 1 1/2 miles below the Earth's surface. The surrounding rock serves as a "cosmic noise filter" in order that scientists can better study complex phenomena. Dr. William Roggenthen describes the search for neutrinos is like "trying to hear a whisper in downtown Manhattan during rush hour".
Administrators and scientists from the U.S Department of Energy toured the Homestake site with members of the Sanford Underground Laboratory National Science Foundation. The group took the deepest journey yet into the flooded mine. Watch their journey here or below.
