Visiting Germany’s hottest spot

Virtual journey into the plasma vessel / 360-degree panorama of the ASDEX Upgrade fusion device

October 04, 2012



The internet site of Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) presents a 360-degree panorama leading you right at the site into the plasma chamber of the large-scale ASDEX Upgrade fusion research device at Garching near Munich.

At www.ipp.mpg.de/panorama this spectacular tour puts the observer right into the core of the device, otherwise accessible only to specialist personnel – to the hottest spot in Germany, where plasmas with temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees are produced. Access is also provided to the periphery of the device accommodating the technical facilities, or to the control room, from which the experiments are monitored.

Via PC, tablet computer or smartphone you can look into every corner and zoom onto every screw. In brief video interludes (in German language) PhD students at IPP talk about their work places: the scientists’ objective is to ... more >>

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