Category Archives: Life at the Pole

Week 21 at the Pole

Some very bright auroras have been unfolding in the sky above the South Pole lately. [...]

Week 20 at the Pole

It looks like IceCube winterover Ian Rees is back to taking photographs. A good thing, [...]

Week 19 at the Pole

A bright moon hovers above a row of summer camp buildings at the South Pole. [...]

Week 18 at the Pole

What better time and place for an outdoor astronomy class than midwinter at the South [...]

Week 17 at the Pole

It helps for IceCube winterovers to be handy and versatile. With no incoming supplies during [...]

Week 16 at the Pole

Now there’s a flashy aurora! You know (and it’s not hard to imagine), they say [...]

Week 15 at the Pole

This is what the ICL porch looks like as it gets darker outside, bathed in [...]

Week 14 at the Pole

See anything? Well, there is something there, in this season's first photo of an aurora [...]

Week 13 at the Pole

The IceCube Laboratory (ICL) is home to a computer complex that collects and processes data [...]

Week 12 at the Pole

The darkness of night tells us that we’re in the Earth’s shadow. But who thinks [...]