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 [...]