After years of drilling holes and deploying DOMs, the IceCube detector was finished on December 18, 2010. See the process here. […]
Drilling and Deployment
Digital Optical Module (DOM) Development
Diagrams
See the IceCube detector, string configuration by season, the anatomy of a digital optical module (DOM), and a list of all of the DOMs’ names. […]
Chronology
IceCube has roots in Antarctica dating back to the early 1990s. This album shows the progression of the project from AMANDA to completion of IceCube construction, with a few milestones in between. […]
Antarctic Animals
Antarctica — home to ice, penguins, researchers, and…what else is there? See a few of the animals that call Antarctica home. […]
Astrophysical neutrino flux with starting track events
This album holds images from the paper “Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector,” published in Science (link). […]
Week 52 at the Pole
Like other places around the world, the South Pole has its traditions for ringing in the new year, but some of them are unique to this locale. For example, each year they hold a ceremony at the geographic pole to set a new pole marker into place. The exact location of the geographic pole shifts […]
Week 51 at the Pole
There are many well-established traditions at the South Pole, and the “Race Around the World” (above) is one of them—a fun run that covers about a two-mile circumference around the South Pole, crossing through all the world’s time zones. Costumes optional, but part of the fun. Last week at the Pole they celebrated Christmas, with […]
Week 50 at the Pole
The holiday season is often a busy time of year for many people, and things are no different at the South Pole. Last week, the IceCube winterovers had their hands full with some detector troubleshooting and maintenance—below they are seen testing batteries and swapping them out at the IceCube lab—as well as clearing snow from […]
2021 IceCube Calendar – Free printable!
Download our printable 2021 IceCube Calendar! Featuring a dozen stunning photos taken by our winterovers, this calendar will teach you something new about the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the South Pole every month. Letter size Tabloid size (A4) […]