Come summer, station personnel eagerly await the first provisions of “freshies,” as they’re called at [...]
This nice sun halo (properly called a 22º halo) that appeared directly above the IceCube [...]
Last week at the Pole, the first two planes of the season arrived (and then [...]
Although the South Pole is essentially a desert, a hefty accumulation of snow occurs on [...]
With the sun out, you can see again—and here we see all the flags surrounding [...]
Flags serve an important purpose at the Pole, marking out routes between places for when [...]
Up, up, and away. That’s a NOAA balloon launch shown in a time-lapse photo—pretty [...]
A new temperature record for 2016 was set at the Pole last week—a low of [...]
One unique aspect of living at the Pole for a year is experiencing only one [...]
Despite the encroaching twilight, this photo of a Scott tent near the South Pole marker [...]
