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 [...]