Italian scientists dip deep for laser experiments to measure Earth’s rotational effects at greatest ever sensitivity. GINGERino ring laser gyroscope at the underground labs of INFN in Gran Sasso, ...
Seismic shift: GINGERino is deep below these mountains. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Lucio De Marcellis) A laser gyroscope located deep beneath the Gran Sasso mountain in central Italy has made the first ...
The rotating-mass gyroscope, which lies at the heart of inertial measurement units (IMUs), has served very successfully from the 1930s to the 1970s, guiding astronauts, spacecraft, missiles, and more.