Author Archives: Jean DeMerit

Week 46 at the Pole

Ok, they’re gone, but you can see them one last time in this photo taken [...]

Week 45 at the Pole

Last week at the Pole was a week of no airplanes. Not only did that [...]

Week 44 at the Pole

Last week brought two new IceCube winterovers (James Casey and Martin Wolf) to the South [...]

Week 43 at the Pole

Come summer, station personnel eagerly await the first provisions of “freshies,” as they’re called at [...]

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 [...]

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! [...]