Category Archives: Life at the Pole
Week 18 at the Pole
If you find yourself at the South Pole, and the sky above you is sparkling [...]
Week 17 at the Pole
It surely is a staircase to the stars. That’s the ICL’s staircase, set against a [...]
Week 16 at the Pole
Arms up—let’s hear it for auroras! With an extremely stable IceCube detector that needed little [...]
Week 15 at the Pole
Last week’s photos from the Pole were full of blue and green. The first visible [...]
Week 14 at the Pole
Another amazing week at the Pole—not only was the detector performing well but the twilight [...]
Week 13 at the Pole
The sun has set, they’ve held their traditional sunset dinner, and yet … it’s still [...]
Week 12 at the Pole
This photo at sunset is a picture that paints a thousand words, reminding us that [...]
Week 11 at the Pole
Pull up a chair—sunset at the South Pole takes weeks, not hours. And why is [...]
Week 10 at the Pole
A tree grows at the South Pole. Well, not really. It’s not an actual tree [...]
Week 9 at the Pole
It was rather overcast last week. In fact, in this photo of the IceCube Lab [...]