It was a fairly busy week at the Pole. IceCube’s new winterovers made their first IceTop snow measurements, an outdoor task that requires daylight to perform. Driving around the detector in a PistenBully helps take care of business more quickly and easily. Since it’s summer there, the weather is rather mild (for the Pole!), but the skies […]
Although Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, and driest place on Earth, it is beautiful! See some of the beauty from the warmth of your own home. […]
The sun provided all sorts of photo opportunities at the Pole last week. Here we see IceCube winterover Josh framed nicely in front of a sun halo with faint sun dogs. […]
Two people each year stay at the South Pole to maintain IceCube during the winter months when it isn’t possible to leave. They are known as winterovers. They work very hard and have some fun as well. […]
IceCube attends and hosts many education and outreach events each year. Here are photos from a few some of our past events. […]
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an array of over 5,000 light sensors embedded in a cubic-kilometer of ice at the South Pole, was built to detect astrophysical neutrinos: mysterious and nearly massless particles that carry information about the most energetic events in the cosmos. Every time IceCube sees something that might be a cosmic neutrino, it […]
More planes (and more fresh faces) arrived at the Pole last week. With five planes total during the week, most of the winter crew has departed. […]
The IceCube Collaboration searches for neutrino sources using a variety of analysis methods. In a paper submitted yesterday to The Astrophysical Journal, the collaboration describes a time-dependent all-sky scan using five years of IceCube data as well as a specific analysis of blazar 3C 279. The analyses did not reveal any new neutrino point sources. […]
The first Basler plane arrived at the South Pole last week, bringing a few newcomers and carrying away some outgoing winterovers. […]
Last week it warmed up a bit at the Pole, rising from about -45 ºF (-43 ºC) to about -15 ºF (-26 ºC) over the course of the week. Much more summerlike. […]