Fermi National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory in the Chicago suburbs have each played an integral part in developing the NOvA experiment, a large-scale neutrino experiment that will shoot beams of neutrinos 500 miles through the earth from Fermilab to a site in Minnesota. The objective is to discover more about the particles and how they build matter. Continue reading here.

The NOvA experiment will shoot beams of neutrinos through 500 miles of solid rock to detectors in upper Minnesota. Researchers will then study results. From Google Earth.