Week 51 at the Pole

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Benjamin Eberhardt, IceCube/NSF

The second South Pole Overland Traverse (SPOT) arrived and toured the IceCube Lab last week. Defueling the SPOT bladders can be a rough job, especially if the weather’s bad. IceCube winterover Benjamin helped out, operating the pumphouse to transfer the 110,000 gallons of fuel (yes! it’s a lot) from the traverse into the station’s storage tanks. Benjamin also helped park a Herc, below—here under skies that couldn’t have been clearer. The IceCube detector was well behaved, leaving plenty of time for gingerbread baking and decorating.

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C. LaPrad, NSF
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J. Hensel, NSF
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Kathrin Mallot, IceCube/NSF