ANITA 5-year anniversary

Five years ago, June/19-23/2006, scientists used a ten-ton block of ice in End Station A to calibrate the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), a radio antenna array designed to fly over the South Pole on a NASA balloon to search for ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrinos.

"SLAC Creates Mini-Antarctica to Calibrate NASA Antenna," SLAC Today, 6/20/2006

"ANITA Sheds Light in End Station A," SLAC Today, 6/29/2006

Data of the stratospheric balloon launched on 12/14/2006 from Williams Field, McMurdo Station, Antarctica for ANITA

University of Hawaii ANITA web site

Cover story, Physical Review Letters, 10/8/10