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 [...]