Ok everyone, what is your favourite "transportation of a science experiment" photo, and why is it this one of KATRIN?

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment in Germany is working on nailing down the mass of the neutrino by studying tritium beta-decay. [Thread]
The KATRIN main spectrometer (in pic above) was built in Deggendorf, Germany, and then had to be transported to Karlsruhe, only 400km away.

However, it was so big that it couldn't travel there directly, and instead had to make a 9000km, 63 day journey over land and sea!
KATRIN released its first results last year, improving the previous world-best neutrino mass limit by a factor of two, using only 4 weeks of data! It's going to be very exciting to see what they produce in the years to come.

http://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2019_119_new-results-for-the-mass-of-neutrinos.php
There are some more fantastic photos of the 9000km journey here (towards bottom of the page)
http://www.katrin.kit.edu/689.php 
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