HAWC (IMAGE)

University of Maryland

HAWC

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The HAWC Observatory, perched next to a volcano at an altitude of 13,500 feet, uses its 300 massive water tanks to scoop up the products of high-energy particle collisions happening in the upper atmosphere.

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Jordan Goodman

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