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NIST Goes to the End of the Earth for Measurement Science
2013-04-03 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
At South Pole Telescope, NIST Boulder researcher Johannes (Hannes) Hubmayr spent several weeks optimizing performance of NIST camera delivered in 2011. Said camera measures signals generated fractions of a second after Big Bang, helping scientists learn about conditions and evolution of early universe. Hubmayr's tasks included snowmobiling across Antarctic tundra to set up equipment and climbing on top of telescope to sweep snow away from dish. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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