Technology Today – Giant Underwater Russian Telescope Launches At 4300ft Depth

Russia launched a giant underwater telescope to a depth of 4,300 feet below the surface of Lake Baikal in an attempt to observe “neutrinos”, the smallest particles known to science. This telescope called Baikal has been under construction since 2015 and consists of chains of spherical units made of glass and stainless steel with a total of 17,657 cubic feet. According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, the neutrino is a subatomic particle without an electric charge and of very small mass, and it is one of the most abundant particles in the universe, but due to its small size , it is very difficult to find out.

The new underwater telescope was carefully lowered into a rectangular hole dug in the frozen water two and a half miles from the shore of Lake Baikal. The telescope team says understanding neutrinos could help reveal details of the early development of the universe, dark matter, and dark energy. Russian scientists launched the device on Saturday to dive into the universe, and the new Baikal telescope will compete with its US counterpart, which is a giant neutrino detector under Antarctic ice.

This new telescope is the largest neutrino detector in the northern hemisphere, and it was placed inside Lake Baikal because it is the largest freshwater lake in the world. Lake Baikal is the only lake where you can deploy a neutrino telescope due to its depth, the project team’s Per Shwibunov told AFP, adding that the purity of the fresh water and the water was also important. Understanding these particles is especially important for science, as they hold the key to understanding everything from fusion with the sun to the start of planet Earth.

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