Finally, the sun has officially risen at the South Pole. It’s manifesting in some beautiful soft colors along the horizon in this image of the flags at the ceremonial South Pole. These flags represent the twelve original signatories of the Antarctic Treaty. And exposed as they are to the harsh elements all year long, they appear quite battered at the end of the long dark winter. So tradition has it that the flags are replaced each year at the beginning of the summer season, with the old flags raffled off to the winterovers. IceCube winterover Kalvin won the Russian flag, appropriate since he had been studying the Russian language this past year. Last week the station enjoyed a formal sunrise dinner. And IceCube winterover Connor captured a nice image of the partial lunar eclipse of a supermoon.
