Life at the Pole
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]