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 [...]