Life at the Pole

Life at the Pole

Week 15 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
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
By Jean DeMerit | |
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
By Jean DeMerit | |
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
By Jean DeMerit | |
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
By Jean DeMerit | |
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
By Jean DeMerit | |
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
By Jean DeMerit | |
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
By Jean DeMerit | |
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
By Jean DeMerit | |
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
By Jean DeMerit | |
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
By Jean DeMerit | |
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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Week 4 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
What’s so funny? Who knows, but a few IceCube folks shared a good laugh out on the ice before leaving [...]

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