2022-06-11

This is the world's biggest underwater telescope – plunging1 into the world's deepest waters to discover some of the tiniest particles known to man.

这是世界上最大的水下望远镜，潜入世界上最深的水域，探索人类已知的最小微粒。

This massive space telescope is what it takes to detect the Universe's best kept secrets – neutrinos – also nicknamed ‘ghost particles'.

科学家们需要用这台大型太空望远镜来探测宇宙中最隐蔽的秘密，即中微子，别名 “幽灵粒子”。

Made of strings2, glass and stainless3 steel, Russian scientists are plunging it more than 700 metres into Russia's Lake Baikal.

这台望远镜由细线、玻璃和不锈钢制成，俄罗斯的科学家们正在把它投入俄罗斯贝加尔湖700多米深的地方。

Bair Shaiybonov, Senior Researcher, Joint4 Institute for Nuclear Research

Lake Baikal is perhaps the only lake where a neutrino telescope can be deployed5 due to its depth. We need the greatest possible depth, over a kilometre. Fresh water is also important for its transparency. And we also have an ice covering lasting6 two to two and a half months, which is very important for the deployment7 of the telescope.

拜尔·沙伊博诺夫    杜布纳联合核子研究所高级研究员