IceCube winterover Mack van Rossem stands, with a full moon and the IceCube Lab (ICL) in the background, all geared up and ready to tackle IceTop measurements. Nice mask! […]
Week 15 at the Pole
Week 14 at the Pole
With the darkness of winter settling in, it’s time to cover the windows. It’s also time for winterizing outdoor equipment and vehicles. Although a large fleet of vehicles is needed for summer activity, most of them are left idle for the winter. […]
Stony Brook and Columbia host IceCube Collaboration meeting this week
The IceCube spring 2016 meeting begins today at Stony Brook University. Assistant Professor Joanna Kiryluk is hosting the weeklong meeting at the Charles B. Wang Center. Pre-meetings were held at Columbia University in New York on April 16-18. […]
Week 13 at the Pole
It was a relatively tranquil week at the Pole, but not without its interruptions—April Fool’s Day pranks among them. The waning light in the sky is beginning to lend a little eeriness to photos. […]
Week 12 at the Pole
A mushroom cloud … at the South Pole? What’s going on down there? What’s going on is actually a rising full moon getting distorted by the atmosphere. Pretty cool image. […]
Week 11 at the Pole
With so little time left above the horizon, the sun is making a nice spectacle of itself at the South Pole. Here we see it bright and orange and surrounded by a clear halo as it hovers above the satellite stations. […]
NSF renews IceCube maintenance and operations contract
This album has been created for distribution with the press release announcing that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed a cooperative agreement with the University of Wisconsin–Madison to operate the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Press release link. […]
NSF renews IceCube maintenance and operations contract
The National Science Foundation today, March 30, 2016, announced that it has renewed a cooperative agreement with the University of Wisconsin–Madison to operate IceCube. The five-year, $35 million award entails the continued operation and management of the observatory located at NSF’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. In 2013, the IceCube Collaboration reported the first detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, opening a new astronomical vista on the universe and on some of its most violent phenomena. […]
Week 10 at the Pole
Last week there were a few alarm calls in the cryo building. The first one interrupted an outreach webcast, and then there was another one later the same day. The photo shows the emergency response team on their return from one of those calls. You can see that the sun is still out, just a few degrees above the horizon. […]
Week 9 at the Pole
On a clear sunny day, it’s easy to make out the buildings at the end of the road to the Dark Sector, but the flag line is set up for the winter months, when darkness and extreme temperatures reign and you really can’t afford to get lost out there. […]