Life at the Pole 2

  • Week 43 at the Pole
    The first flight bringing summer crew to the South Pole finally arrived. It was a Basler plane, which brought 12 […]

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  • Week 42 at the Pole
    Things were quieter at the Pole last week than they might have been. Uncooperative weather delayed the opening flight of […]

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  • Week 41 at the Pole
    Someone has to be first. This season, the first plane to arrive at the South Pole was the Basler plane […]

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  • Week 40 at the Pole
    The summer season personnel have not yet begun arriving at the Pole, but the winterover crew needs some time to […]

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  • Week 39 at the Pole
    The sun is up, but it’s still quite low on the horizon. When you face the sun, as in the […]

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  • Week 38 at the Pole
    Antarctica has sometimes been referred to as the end of the world. But for those who live at the South […]

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  • Week 37 at the Pole
    Yes, the sun has officically risen at the Pole. But it happened at the very end of the week, so […]

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  • Week 36 at the Pole
    A total lunar eclipse started off last week at the Pole. IceCube winterover Ilya had set up a camera box […]

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  • Week 35 at the Pole
    As the sky at the South Pole gets brighter, we can definitely see the difference from just two weeks ago […]

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  • Week 34 at the Pole
    The sky at the South Pole continues to brighten up before official sunrise—lately to the point where headlamps are no […]

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  • Week 33 at the Pole
    Everything’s blue and rather dark, but not gloomy. There’s just a hint of orange starting to spread along the horizon, […]

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  • Week 32 at the Pole
    This could the season’s last view of the IceCube Lab with the Milky Way visible overhead. Key word being could—guess […]

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