Life at the Pole 2

  • Week 25 at the Pole
    Last week, things were quiet for IceCube’s winteovers as well as for the South Pole station in general, in recovery […]

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  • Week 24 at the Pole
    Wash, rinse, and repeat. You have two seasons at the Pole, summer and winter. Summer is long gone and now […]

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  • Week 23 at the Pole
    Last week’s outdoor photographs from the Pole have gone from colorful to more black and white (with some red accents) […]

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  • Week 22 at the Pole
    To really enjoy auroras, you want a nice dark sky. And in winter, the South Pole enjoys very dark skies […]

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  • Week 21 at the Pole
    It was a rather quiet week at the Pole. Not in the skies, though, where auroras continued to dance and […]

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  • Week 20 at the Pole
    Sometimes it feels almost as if the auroras are trying to say something, scrawling an unintelligible script across the sky. […]

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  • Week 19 at the Pole
    Just as it’s getting dark, the moon appears and brightens things back up. Here, the IceCube Lab casts a shadow […]

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  • Week 18 at the Pole
    The auroras keep coming. Last week at the Pole, IceCube winterover Ilya captured this image of the sky full of […]

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  • Week 17 at the Pole
    Ta-da! The skies were ablaze last week at the Pole. It was an otherwise rather quiet week for IceCube’s winterovers. […]

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  • 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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