On the occasion of the workshop ET@INGV,National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) launched the project Earth Telescope, to aim the instruments towards the interior of the Earth and investigate the complex and not yet fully understood aspects of our Planet.
The conference, hosted on 3 and 4 June at the INGV Headquarters, saw the participation of representatives of the Italian Research Institutions involved in the project Einstein Telescope (ET), which our country has applied to host in Sardinia.
The meeting was an opportunity to share scientific objectives and medium and long-term expectations related to research in Sardinia, as well as to strengthen collaboration between the bodies involved in ET.
The scientific community gathered in Rome warmly welcomed the presentation of the Earth Telescope made by INGV: it would, in fact, be a important step forward towards an ever more in-depth one knowledge of the internal structure and dynamics of our planet, as well as an important one added value to the Italian candidacy as ET host country.
Sos Enattos (NU) and the surrounding area could thus become not only the beating heart of Italian research on gravitational waves thanks to ET, but also the ideal place to host scientists and instruments capable of revealing what we still don't know about the interior of the Earth.
With the PNRR project MEET (Monitoring Earth's Evolution and Tectonics) of the INGV, the route has already been traced with the creation of FABER, The first Far Fault Observatory Italian, a observatory capable of detecting deep signals from the planet.
Taking advantage of the relative seismic silence of Sardinia due to its geodynamic and geological characteristics and the limited anthropization of the Barbagia area between Lula, Bitti and Onanì (where the Sos Enattos mine is located), it has already been seismic and geodetic monitoring intensified and gravimeters and magnetometers will soon be installed, to constitute a multiparametric network in a privileged point.
In this context and thanks to the synergy between important scientific objectives represented by Earth Telescope and Einstein Telescope, a new and modern multidisciplinary laboratory will soon be born in which theNational Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN),National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) andINGV they will continue existing projects, such as FABER and Archimedes, and develop the technologies necessary for the creation of the Einstein Telescope.
With the support of Autonomous Region of Sardinia, Research Institutions and Sardinian Universities, the Sos Enattos mine is on its way to becoming the common home of excellent Italian research, to promote technological and scientific development increasingly suited to the challenges of the future.
Useful links:
INGV
The conference, hosted on 3 and 4 June at the INGV Headquarters, saw the participation of representatives of the Italian Research Institutions involved in the project Einstein Telescope (ET), which our country has applied to host in Sardinia.
The meeting was an opportunity to share scientific objectives and medium and long-term expectations related to research in Sardinia, as well as to strengthen collaboration between the bodies involved in ET.
The scientific community gathered in Rome warmly welcomed the presentation of the Earth Telescope made by INGV: it would, in fact, be a important step forward towards an ever more in-depth one knowledge of the internal structure and dynamics of our planet, as well as an important one added value to the Italian candidacy as ET host country.
Sos Enattos (NU) and the surrounding area could thus become not only the beating heart of Italian research on gravitational waves thanks to ET, but also the ideal place to host scientists and instruments capable of revealing what we still don't know about the interior of the Earth.
With the PNRR project MEET (Monitoring Earth's Evolution and Tectonics) of the INGV, the route has already been traced with the creation of FABER, The first Far Fault Observatory Italian, a observatory capable of detecting deep signals from the planet.
Taking advantage of the relative seismic silence of Sardinia due to its geodynamic and geological characteristics and the limited anthropization of the Barbagia area between Lula, Bitti and Onanì (where the Sos Enattos mine is located), it has already been seismic and geodetic monitoring intensified and gravimeters and magnetometers will soon be installed, to constitute a multiparametric network in a privileged point.
In this context and thanks to the synergy between important scientific objectives represented by Earth Telescope and Einstein Telescope, a new and modern multidisciplinary laboratory will soon be born in which theNational Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN),National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) andINGV they will continue existing projects, such as FABER and Archimedes, and develop the technologies necessary for the creation of the Einstein Telescope.
With the support of Autonomous Region of Sardinia, Research Institutions and Sardinian Universities, the Sos Enattos mine is on its way to becoming the common home of excellent Italian research, to promote technological and scientific development increasingly suited to the challenges of the future.
Useful links:
INGV
In the picture: A moment of the workshop's work ET@INGV held on 3 and 4 June in the Conference Room of the INGV Headquarters in Rome.