In October 2024, I was on a review committee for the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) and they gave us a tour of the future home of the DUNE experiment. This post shows how one accesses the underground facilities and what it looks like 4850 ft below the Black Hills.
You can learn more about SURF and DUNE here:
https://sanfordlab.org
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