Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 8:00am
Since bundling up to go outdoors is a bit of an ordeal (well, it doesn’t look as bad when you speed things up), you don’t want to have to make unnecessary trips out to the ICL if you can avoid it.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 10:30am
Last week we mentioned that they were celebrating midwinter at the South Pole, but we didn’t really cover all the festivities. First, there was the traditional viewing of “The Shining,” Stanley Kubrick’s classic horror movie about an off-season caretaker in an isolated (also cold and white) location.
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 11:00pm
A few years after the completion of IceCube, one of the major goals of building this strange cubic-kilometer detector at the South Pole has already been accomplished: the unequivocal observation of an astrophysical neutrino flux.
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 9:00am
Life at the Pole may be different than life elsewhere, but some things are the same just about everywhere. One of those things is celebrating holidays. Who knows? Maybe holidays are even more important when you live in small, isolated communities.
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 2:00pm
This photograph of the ICL (IceCube Lab) almost looks as if it’s set against an artificial backdrop, but it is just the eerie effect of the sky lit by a rising moon. No special-effects lighting inside in the galley, where winterover Dag was stationed for his dish pit duty.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 10:00am
Summer is already showing up at many of IceCube’s collaborating institutions. In the meantime, at the South Pole, the detector itself stays safe and frozen a mile beneath the surface. These days winter is as tough as it gets for two IceCubers, the 2013-14 winterovers.
Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 2:45pm
Some very bright auroras have been unfolding in the sky above the South Pole lately. But that doesn’t mean the only way to see an aurora is by looking upward. Here’s an aurora reflected in the metallic sphere atop the marker at the ceremonial South Pole.
Monday, June 9, 2014 - 10:15am
It looks like IceCube winterover Ian Rees is back to taking photographs. A good thing, too, or we wouldn’t have gotten the above image of a nice aurora filling up the sky over the ICL.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 1:00pm
A bright moon hovers above a row of summer camp buildings at the South Pole. It’s not summer there now, of course, but with such a brightly lit sky, the winterovers may be having flashbacks to a time not so long ago when the sun shone down on this camp.
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 8:00am
What better time and place for an outdoor astronomy class than midwinter at the South Pole? Clear skies present a group of expectant gazers with a multitude of stars for their viewing pleasure.