Life at the Pole
Week 27 at the Pole
Last week was mostly quiet again at the South Pole. The snow drifts continue to grow, as clearly seen in…
Week 26 at the Pole
There’s a lot of snow around at the South Pole for a place that’s classified as a desert. That’s because…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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,…