2010-11 Aerial Photos--January/February 2011--The Dark Sector

An overall view of the dark sector (at least most of it) looking east.

Another view looking a bit further south. The orange flags were put up to mark the IceCube holes; the flags have since been taken down for the winter.

Here are a couple of views looking the other direction...(Haley Buffman)

...in the left foreground are the leftover IceCube drill site modules...stored here for now.

Here's a closeup of MAPO, this view looks southwest at the "back side," the substation building 61 is behind MAPO. The disturbed snow in the upper left is the former site of the AST/RO building which was demo'd this season.

Here's a closeup view of the ground shield on the southeast end of the building...most recently the home of the new SPUD/KECK telescope.

A closeup of the Ice Cube laboratory (ICL) all wired up, with the cable towers completed.

Here's a distant view of the dark sector showing something new...the test site for the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), a planned huge neutrino detector that will stretch many miles west of here.

The view from this angle shows several craters north of DSL...the remnants of the blasting activities which collapsed Old Pole in the 2010-11 summer.

A closeup of the craters...with different lighting they look a bit like snow piles.