Life at the Pole 2

  • Week 16 at the Pole
    And then…the auroras start to get bigger and brighter. Unfortunately, the weather last week at the Pole was mostly bad, […]

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  • Week 15 at the Pole
    Last week had a mix of quiet days and less quiet days at the Pole. There was a monthly emergency […]

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  • Week 14 at the Pole
    Aww, that first aurora of the season—often rather light and wispy, here stretching across a sky that is still lit […]

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  • Week 13 at the Pole
    Last week was relatively quiet at the Pole. Even the outdoor photographs have a sort of “quiet” and reflective feel […]

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  • Week 12 at the Pole
    The sun is now below the horizon, but there’s still plenty of light. Most of us experience this period of […]

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  • Week 11 at the Pole
    The lowering sun at the South Pole made for some great photos last week. Above, the sun itself is blocked […]

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  • Week 10 at the Pole
    A nice halo surrounds the lowering sun at the Pole, with some mistiness along the horizon. Sun halos, also called […]

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  • Week 9 at the Pole
    Ah, the waning days of summer, when the shadows cast by the lowering sun lengthen with each passing day. Here […]

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  • Week 8 at the Pole
    A small plane found itself parked in behind some other aircraft at the South Pole last week, but it was […]

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  • Week 7 at the Pole
    The station is technically closed for the winter season, but there are still some Basler planes (and their pilots) transitioning […]

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  • Week 6 at the Pole
    And just like that, summer’s over and winter begins. At the Pole last week, a bunch of winterovers stood out […]

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  • Week 5 at the Pole
    A white rainbow? Well, yes—it’s also called a fogbow! Fogbows are rarer than rainbows, and guess what—they’re sometimes referred to […]

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