Week 9 at the Pole

A Scott tent pitched on the ice at the South Pole, with the ceremonial Pole marker and some flags seen in the background.
Wenceslas Marie-Sainte, IceCube/NSF

Last week was somewhat busy at the South Pole for IceCube’s winterovers. There were a couple of troubleshooting issues regarding the detector, and a trip or two out to the IceCube Lab (ICL). That’s Moreno below checking the status of some fans on computers in the ICL. On the recreational side of things, the winterovers finished on the top two winning teams in a trivia competition. And Celas along with two other winterovers embarked on a real adventure—they set up a Scott tent to sleep overnight in the great outdoors of the South Pole—at -60 C! Definitely cold outside, but apparently “comfy” and “cozy” (Celas’s description) inside.

Winterover seen checking through a bundle of orange computer cables.
Wenceslas Marie-Sainte, IceCube/NSF