Yearly Archives: 2016

Week 42 at the Pole

This nice sun halo (properly called a 22º halo) that appeared directly above the IceCube [...]

Week 41 at the Pole

Last week at the Pole, the first two planes of the season arrived (and then [...]

Week 40 at the Pole

Although the South Pole is essentially a desert, a hefty accumulation of snow occurs on [...]

Can cosmic rays eventually reveal their origin?

A recent work by Markus Ahlers, a John Bahcall fellow at WIPAC, has shown that [...]

Week 39 at the Pole

With the sun out, you can see again—and here we see all the flags surrounding [...]

Week 38 at the Pole

Flags serve an important purpose at the Pole, marking out routes between places for when [...]

Week 37 at the Pole

Up, up, and away. That’s a NOAA balloon launch shown in a time-lapse photo—pretty nice! [...]

Week 36 at the Pole

A new temperature record for 2016 was set at the Pole last week—a low of [...]

Meet Gretel and Roberto, two physicists-in-training

This summer, two students worked with WIPAC throught the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at [...]

Week 35 at the Pole

One unique aspect of living at the Pole for a year is experiencing only one [...]