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Pilot Projects

Over the pase decade three major pilot initiatives in the Mediterranean have been exploring the technologies, building and deploying prototype telescopes designed to operate at depths ranging from 2500 to 4500 m. These three pilot projects, ANTARES off the coast of Toulon, France at a depth of 2500 m, NESTOR off the coast of Pylos, Greece at a depth of 4000 m and NEMO off the coast of Sicily, Italy, comprise pilot facilities that cover a few percent only of the desired infrastructure for a cubic kilometre neutrino telescope: KM3NeT.

The images show the different structures and deployment techniques of the three pilot projects:

NESTOR Deployment of the NESTOR pyramid structure

Nautile submarine to connect subsea cables for ANTARES ANTARES

NEMO NEMO tower structure