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 [...]