Category Archives: Life at the Pole

Week 23 at the Pole

Life at the Pole may be different than life elsewhere, but some things are the [...]

Week 22 at the Pole

This photograph of the ICL (IceCube Lab) almost looks as if it’s set against an [...]

An interview with the 2013-14 IceCube winterovers

Dag Larsen and Ian Rees arrived at the South Pole in November 2013. The brand-new [...]

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 [...]