
And just like that, summer’s over and winter begins. At the Pole last week, a bunch of winterovers stood out on the ice as the last of the summer personnel boarded their plane headed for McMurdo Station, the first leg of their trip home. Below we see front and back views of the IceCube Lab under an overcast sky, with a hose reel and nearby outbuildings packed up and ready for action next summer. In the meantime, there will be 41 winterovers occupying the station during the long, dark winter. They reorganized the galley to include a lounge area for the now smaller population. They also did what every group of winterovers does after station closing—hold a marathon viewing of all three versions of “The Thing.”


