Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 3:30pm
DM-Ice, or Dark Matter-Ice, is searching for dark matter in the Southern Hemisphere. In celebration of Dark Matter Day, celebrated internationally every year on October 31, we speak to Matt Kauer, an assistant researcher on DM-Ice who is stationed at WIPAC.
Friday, October 25, 2019 - 10:00am
Well, there it is, the first plane to arrive at the South Pole for the season—a Basler. It only stopped long enough to refuel, but that was plenty of time to unload its precious cargo of fresh fruit.
Friday, October 18, 2019 - 3:45pm
The sun is well above the horizon, so there’s plenty of light for outdoor photography. And IceCube’s winterovers got right out there to take some splashy photos—that actually involved a splash of sorts, by throwing water out into an arc overhead that quickly turned into a spray of ice crystals.
Friday, October 11, 2019 - 3:45pm
The sunrise is over now at the South Pole, with the sun fully risen. But if you position yourself just so, near a large snowdrift, it can almost appear as though the sun is rising right there.
Friday, October 4, 2019 - 11:30am
It’s time for sunglasses now at the South Pole—the sun has definitely made its presence clear. And it’s here to stay, or rather for a good long while anyway.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 - 9:00am
Some weeks at the Pole are quiet, and some—like last week—are busy. The IceCube detector had a number of hiccups that required the winterovers’ attention. On top of taking care of IceCube, there were plenty of other things to attend to as far as getting the station ready for the summer crews.
Monday, September 23, 2019 - 3:45pm
The sky just gets brighter and brighter along the horizon. And although auroras are exciting, the dawn sky with its changing colors holds its own special appeal.
Monday, September 23, 2019 - 2:45pm
Collaborators from Fermi-LAT realized that the abundance of cosmic-ray protons in the LAT data set might enable them to measure cosmic-ray anisotropy, and so they conducted the first search for cosmic-ray proton anisotropy using Fermi-LAT data. They present their results in a paper published last week in The Astrophysical Journal.
Friday, September 13, 2019 - 10:30am
The sky is beginning to take on different colors at the Pole, depending on which direction you’re looking. There’s a hazy band of orange along the horizon, but facing away toward the station the sky appears blue.
Monday, September 9, 2019 - 1:15pm
It was a quiet week at the Pole. And with some bad weather, it was a good time to roam around and take some indoor photos.