Week 46 at the Pole

By Jean DeMerit — Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 3:00pm
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 3:00pm
plane
Image: E. Beiser, IceCube/NSF

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … no, wait, it’s just a plane. Actually, it’s a particular plane—a C-17, a large military transport aircraft—training for air drops over the South Pole station, caught from below by IceCube winterover Erik Beiser. The winterovers were busy this week with a number of things: unloading cargo (carrying lots of boxes), snowmobile training, ICL cleanup, and packing up data tapes for shipment north.

plane
Image: E. Beiser, IceCube/NSF

landscape
Image: M. Jurkovich, IceCube/NSF

snowmobile
Image: E. Beiser, IceCube/NSF

tapes
Image: S. Richter, IceCube/NSF

 

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