Yearly Archives: 2015
Week 50 at the Pole
It was a rather busy week at the Pole. Besides people coming and going, there [...]
Five years since IceCube Neutrino Observatory completion
Decades ago, the aspiration to build a kilometer-scale neutrino detector at the South Pole seemed [...]
Week 49 at the Pole
We’ve discussed sastrugi before, but this one deserves special attention for its shape. It sure [...]
Week 48 at the Pole
The number of IceCube personnel at the South Pole station during the past few summers [...]
Week 47 at the Pole
We weren’t kidding that there are a lot of training sessions for activities at the [...]
Week 46 at the Pole
There are training sessions for just about everything that goes on at the South Pole. [...]
Week 45 at the Pole
A steady wind shows the flags at the ceremonial South Pole aligning themselves quite neatly. [...]
Week 44 at the Pole
Clear weather allowed most of the scheduled flights to make it to the Pole last [...]
Week 43 at the Pole
It’s that time of year for the “changing of the guard”—for IceCube’s winterovers, that is. [...]
Star-forming galaxies are not the main source of IceCube neutrinos
IceCube data are stubbornly showing us only a glimpse of the extreme universe at a [...]