World class| sanfordlab.org
Excavation workers have finished carving out the future home of the gigantic particle detectors for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Located a mile below the surface, the three colossal caverns are at the core of a new research facility that spans an underground area about the size of eight soccer fields. | Sanford Underground Research Facility
For physicist Mark Hanhardt, the stunning photos of the early universe being returned to Earth by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are a bit like turning a cell phone camera on ourselves.| Sanford Underground Research Facility
Daniel Robertson, a research professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame (left), and Mark Hanhardt, an experiment support scientist and Ph.D. candidate at South Dakota Mines, pose on either side of the glowing plasma tube at the heart of CASPAR. | Sanford Underground Research Facility
“We are made of star stuff.”| Sanford Underground Research Facility