Yearly Archives: 2015

Week 15 at the Pole

Although there is still a little bit of twilight left in the direction of the [...]

Week 14 at the Pole

Have we mentioned that the ICL (IceCube Lab) is a rather photogenic building? I think [...]

Week 13 at the Pole

Very little snow actually falls at the South Pole. Antarctica as a whole is the [...]

Week 12 at the Pole

The sun takes its time setting at the South Pole. And even after it has [...]

Week 11 at the Pole

With the equinox last week, the annual sunset dinner was held at the South Pole [...]

Tidings from the 2015 IceCube Masterclass

The second edition of the IceCube Masterclass took place on Wednesday, March 18, at nine [...]

Here comes HAWC: New observatory to seek out gamma rays

Image: HAWC Collaboration High on a sleeping Mexican volcano, a new particle astrophysics observatory is [...]

Week 10 at the Pole

Close up, with the sun behind it, or from a distance, with the sun shining [...]

Week 9 at the Pole

The temperatures have been dropping, into the –50s °C, while the sun continues to get [...]

Week 8 at the Pole

It was a week of acronyms and snow surveys. Each year at the Pole, before [...]