Drilling and Deployment

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After years of drilling holes and deploying DOMs, the IceCube detector was finished on December 18, 2010. See the process here.

Constructing the drill tower
Moving the drill tower
Overview of the drill site
Hose of hot water
A tale of two hoses
Firn drill
Drill head
Preparing the drill head
Night-shift drillers
Attaching the DOM
String 83 deployment team
Deployment
Down it goes
Monitoring the descent
Connecting cables