What is the purpose of the Amundsen-Scott Research center in Antarctica?

Answer 1

The south pole station is supported by the United States of America by way of its National Science Foundation.

It is a key research facility on the continent, given its high, central and significantly inland location. It is the southernmost point of planet earth.

All research on Antarctica is conducted to answer questions about the health of our planet.

Among other scientific research conducted there, here is a list of the astrophysics experiments, courtesy of its Wikipedia entry:

• South Pole Telescope (2007-), used to survey the CMB* to look for distant galaxy clusters.
• Viper telescope (1997-2000), used to observe temperature anisotropies in the CMB. Was refitted with the ACBAR bolometer (2000-2008).
• Python Telescope (1992-1997),[10] used to observe temperature anisotropies in the CMB.
• AMANDA (1997-2009) was an experiment to detect neutrinos.
• IceCube (2010-), is an experiment to detect neutrinos.
• The Keck Array (2010-), using the DASI mount, is now used to continue work on the polarization anisotropies of the CMB.
• The BICEP1 (2006-2008) and then BICEP2 (2010-2012) instrument was also used to observe polarization anisotropies in the CMB. BICEP3 is now under development and due to deploy in 2015.
• The QUaD (2004-2009),used the DASI mount, used to make detailed observations of CMB polarizaton.

According to the Antarctic treaty, all research results are shared among all governments included in the treaty.

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*Cosmic Wave Background