If the light cone of a myon ...

... spreads over the AMANDA array, it releases electrical pulses in the probes which are transmitted to the surface.

Since the myon continues to fly in about the same direction as the neutrino from which it emerged, one may deduce from a map of the light flashes where the latter came from.

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