why we always constructed observatory under a moutain or deep underneath the ground.. For example the newly The Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector is a physics experiment the size of a 15-story building, buried under a mountain in Japan

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Neutrinos are incredibly hard to detect, so the equipment to detect them needs to be extremely sensitive. That leads it to being easily affected by interference from the surface. Putting it underground makes it easier to isolate the neutrinos’ signal from anything else.