Week 23 at the Pole

Friday, June 21, 2019 - 2:30pm

Stars, auroras, and moon at South Pole
Kathrin Mallot, IceCube/NSF

A quiet week at the Pole—but that doesn’t mean that nothing happened.  First of all, look at that sky!  Lots of stars and swirling auroras, but also a bright rising moon make for a very picturesque setting. Of course it’s cold there, so no one really want to be outside for too long.  Indoors plenty of things were going on‚ including continued tech rescue training, the annual viewing of “The Shining,” and a scrumptious meal highlighting quinoa-stuffed, homegrown (in the station’s greenhouse) peppers.

Group crouched around person to put on stretcher in fire rescue training
Kathrin Mallot, IceCube/NSF

close-up of stuffed pepper
Kathrin Mallot, IceCube/NSF