NSF approves funding for IceCube Upgrade

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This album supports the announcement that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved full funding of the IceCube Upgrade project, setting off the first extension of the IceCube detector.

Find the press release here.

Sunset behind the IceCube Lab
Moonlight behind the IceCube Lab
IceCube Upgrade layout
String geometry before and after IceCube Upgrade
Simulation of a 9.7 GeV event before and after IceCube Upgrade
Comparison of a simulated 3.8 GeV event before and after IceCube Upgrade
Three new optical sensor designs
Optical sensor: pDOM
Optical sensor: mDOM
Optical sensor: D-Egg
New sensor designs shown at string depths
Prototype of an mDOM
Prototype of a D-Egg
Server room in the IceCube Lab
Working at the South Pole
Reading the inclinometer
Milky Way above the ICL
Auroras at the South Pole
IceCube Collaboration group photo
IceCube Upgrade detector additions
Looking ahead to IceCube-Gen2
What is the IceCube Upgrade?