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Baikal-GVD: Underwater neutrino telescope

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-III – Sci and Tech

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Russian scientists launched one of the world’s biggest underwater neutrino telescopes called the Baikal-GVD (Gigaton Volume Detector) in the waters of Lake Baikail.
Lake Baikal is the world’s deepest lake situated in Siberia.

Key takeaways

Mission: To study in detail the fundamental particles called neutrinos and to possibly determine their sources.
It is one of the three largest neutrino detectors in the world along with the IceCube at the South Pole and ANTARES in the Mediterranean Sea.

Important value additions

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is a rift lake located in southern Siberia, Russia.
It is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing 22 to 23% of the world’s fresh surface water.
It is the seventh-largest lake in the world by surface area.
Maximum depth: 1,642 m (5,387 ft)
It is the world’s oldest (25–30 million years) and deepest lake.
It has a long, crescent shape.
The region to the east of Lake Baikal is referred to as Transbaikalia or as the Trans baikal.
The loosely defined region around the lake itself is sometimes known as Baikalia.
UNESCO declared Lake Baikal a World Heritage Site in 1996.

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