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These two jumbo drill rigs are some of the equipment that construction crews will use for the excavation of the caverns for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Before being lowered underground through the mile-deep Ross Shaft, they first need to be partially disassembled. Photo: Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility

An orange and silver drill rig (a tractor-like apparatus with two parallel arms that reach above the cab and then make a steep diagonal to the ground) and several red and silver drill rigs sit in the foreground of a silty construction site. Other equipment is in the midground and hills filled with evergreens and blue sky above in the background.