One of the two DUNE caverns, photographed from an overlook on one end. The cavern is 1.5 American football fields in length.

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   Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 11:39:29 JST Stephen Sekula

   Let’s take a look at the next installment from my visit to #SURF last week. After arriving at the Ross Campus, we walked from the end of the tram line to the first of the VERY large DUNE caverns. DUNE is the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and will consist of huge neutrino detectors comprised from 17,000 tons of liquid argon. 800,000 tons of rock has been excavated to make the caverns.

   THEY. ARE. HUGE.

   Each is over 100m long.

   #DUNE #neutrino #underground #physics #science