You might think that the IceCube Lab, looking so impressive in the photo above just before sunrise, was the highlight of last week at the Pole. But for the station’s winterovers, it was a video conference interview with astronaut Christina Koch that really got folks thrilled. Christina is no stranger to the South Pole. Prior to embarking on her astronaut career, she had spent several years traveling in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and was a winterover herself at the South Pole station. She fielded many questions from the group and was able to compare her time at the South Pole to her time working on the International Space Station. (Maybe a third (weaker) candidate for last week’s highlight could be the moon, just visible above the horizon in the bottom image of the IceCube Lab, viewed from the other side in shadow.)
