IceCube Detects Neutrinos (IMAGE) DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Caption IceCube’s 5,160 digital optical modules are suspended from 86 strings reaching a mile and a half below the surface at the South Pole. Each sphere contains a photomultiplier tube and electronics to capture the faint flashes of muons speeding through the ice, their direction and energy -- and thus that of the neutrinos that created them -- tracked by multiple detections. At lower left is the processed signal of an energetic muon moving upward through the array, created by a neutrino that traveled all the way through the Earth. Credit IceCube Collaboration and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Usage Restrictions With credit as given License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.