Week 10 at the Pole

Bright sun low on horizon at the South Pole, with a few flags visible in the distance.
Moreno Baricevic, IceCube/NSF

IceCube’s winterovers started off last week with continued detector troubleshooting from the previous week. Later in the week, they joined a South Pole webcast and gave an outreach presentation on their experience as winterovers. They also took advantage of being outdoors for some emergency response training to trek out to the IceCube Lab and get in some maintenance work there as well. The sun is still out at the Pole, but it’s getting lower and creating longer shadows.

Silhouette of person walking toward a low sun on the horizon.
Moreno Baricevic, IceCube/NSF