Engineers and technicians assemble a novel hot-water drill rig at the South Pole. The rig will be used to drill as many as 70 1.5-mile deep holes in the Antarctic ice as part of construction of the IceCube neutrino telescope. When completed, IceCube will be the world's largest scientific instrument and will be capable of detecting high-energy cosmic neutrinos from the deepest regions of space. Funded primarily by the National Science Foundation, IceCube is being built by an international consortium of universities and scientific laboratories.