Category Archives: Life at the Pole

Week 22 at the Pole

A green sky flecked with swirling patterns of white lines. That’s what you get from [...]

Week 21 at the Pole

Antarctica is often described as the coldest, driest, and windiest place on earth. Cold and [...]

Week 20 at the Pole

There was plenty of action this week at the Pole, indoors and out. Inside there [...]

Week 19 at the Pole

The aurora season is in full swing at the South Pole, as exemplified by this [...]

Week 18 at the Pole

What’s this? Almost looks like a sample from the sushi plate (yep, we’ve already confirmed [...]

Week 17 at the Pole

The auroras were busy this week, curling themselves up to look like cinnamon rolls. The [...]

Week 16 at the Pole

Here they come. The auroras, that is. Although the sky is still allowing the sun’s [...]

Week 15 at the Pole

This week had all the usual stuff—you know, calibrations, detector statistics, data handling, that kind [...]

Week 14 at the Pole

It’s cold and icy outside at the Pole, but not inside—although the blue tint of [...]

Week 13 at the Pole

With the sun just below the horizon and a full moon in the sky, this [...]