Life at the Pole
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Week 31 at the Pole
It seems so bright outside at the Pole—but we didn’t miss the sunrise, that’s still to come. However, you can…