Author Archives: Jean DeMerit

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! [...]

Week 36 at the Pole

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

Week 35 at the Pole

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

Week 34 at the Pole

Despite the encroaching twilight, this photo of a Scott tent near the South Pole marker [...]

Week 33 at the Pole

A full moon is doing just as good a job as the sun in lighting [...]