Week 10 at the Pole

Close up, with the sun behind it, or from a distance, with the sun shining [...]

Week 9 at the Pole

The temperatures have been dropping, into the –50s °C, while the sun continues to get [...]

Week 8 at the Pole

It was a week of acronyms and snow surveys. Each year at the Pole, before [...]

Week 7 at the Pole

What’s the easiest way to get a nicely centered picture of an approaching airplane on [...]

Week 6 at the Pole

The week began with some extra-nice halos and ended with an exodus of most of [...]

Week 5 at the Pole

Giant spools sure do serve as a great photo prop. Now empty, these spools had [...]

Week 4 at the Pole

Last week we saw a sun halo, and a few weeks back we saw the [...]

IPA2015: registration and abstract submission now open

Image: WIPAC Registration and abstract submission for the IceCube Particle Astrophysics Symposium (IPA2015): Cosmic Neutrinos, [...]

Week 3 at the Pole

This “ring around the sun” is a halo, an optical phenomenon that occurs from light [...]

Week 2 at the Pole

At first glance it looks like IceCube winterover Stephan has sprouted some new teeth at [...]