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'Showers of particles that erupt when cosmic rays collide with Earth's
atmosphere may have just given us a viable underground navigation system.
Cosmic ray muons raining down on, and partially through, the planet's surface
have allowed scientists to calculate an individual's position in a building's
basement, a location in which satellite global positioning systems don't work.
This is a big step towards effective navigation underground, underwater, and at
high latitudes, all places where GPS fails. According to its designers, it
could be used for such purposes as carrying out search and rescue operations,
undersea monitoring, tracking in radio quiet zones, and mining.
"Cosmic ray muons fall equally across the Earth and always travel at the same
speed regardless of what matter they traverse, penetrating even kilometers of
rock," says physicist Hiroyuki Tanaka of the University of Tokyo in Japan
"Now, by using muons, we have developed a new kind of GPS, which we have called
the muometric positioning system (muPS), which works underground, indoors, and
underwater."'
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