Giant Space Telescope Submerged Thousands of Feet Below World s Deepest Lake
AFP
15 MARCH 2021
Russian scientists on Saturday launched one of the world s biggest underwater space telescopes to peer deep into the Universe from the pristine waters of Lake Baikal.
The deep underwater telescope, which has been under construction since 2015, is designed to observe neutrinos, the smallest particles currently known.
Dubbed Baikal-GVD, the telescope was submerged to a depth of 750-1,300 meters (2,500-4,300 feet), around four kilometers from the lake s shore.
Baikal-GVD being lowered into the water. (Kirill Shipitsin/Sputnik Kirill Shipitsin/Sputnik/AFP)
Neutrinos are very hard to detect and water is an effective medium for doing so.
(Photo : Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Lake Baikal, at the start of the Angara River, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia, 1980s. Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in Asia and the deepest lake in the world.
This telescope will be used by Russian scientists to help explain the emergence and evolution of the universe. We expect that our colleagues will make their contribution, we will all together understand the Universe, we will reveal its history, how galaxies were born, Russia s Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov said per TASS News.
He added that research is one of the motors of regional growth, so this is also significant for the country.
A giant underwater telescope has been deployed 4,300ft below the surface of Lake Baikal in a bid to observe neutrinos - the smallest particles known to science. Baikal-GVD has been under construction since 2015 and consists of strings with.
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