Category Archives: Life at the Pole

Week 36 at the Pole

These are sastrugi. Who doesn’t love to learn a new word? Sastrugi are wavelike ridges [...]

Week 35 at the Pole

One of the IceCube winterovers stands in front of the IceCube Lab with outstretched arms [...]

Week 34 at the Pole

It’s not just ice and starry skies. There are people down there, and look what [...]

Week 33 at the Pole

IceCube winterovers were busy this week with various sessions for emergency response team training—fire, trauma, [...]

Week 32 at the Pole

It was an uneventful week for the winterovers, but not for the moon. Here’s a [...]

Week 31 at the Pole

Cold, windy, with the moon back up. We have two photos of balloon launches this [...]

Week 30 at the Pole

What is it? It looks cozy, like when kids throw a sheet over some chairs [...]

Week 29 at the Pole

Cold goes to colder, as they reached their lowest temperature yet at the South Pole [...]

Week 28 at the Pole

The US flag flaps in the wind, as it undoubtedly did in many places across [...]

Week 27 at the Pole

A quiet week at the Pole. Still, there’s always maintenance to be done, like status [...]