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