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    Week 21 at the Pole

    Friday, June 5, 2015 - 12:45pm

    Is that the sun or the moon? That’s the moon alright—since it’s still winter at the South Pole, we know the sun has set and won’t show itself again for awhile.

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    Week 21 at the Pole

    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.
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    Week 22 at the Pole

    Friday, June 12, 2015 - 10:00am
    They’re getting fancy at the Pole—wide angles showing off curves and long exposures leaving star trails in the night sky. With its long stretch of darkness broken only by spells of auroras or the rising of a sunlike moon, winter makes the South Pole a captivating place.
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    Week 23 at the Pole

    Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 1:00pm
    South Pole … greenhouse? That’s right. One of the coldest places on the planet hosts a very nice, warm greenhouse, replete with tomatoes and leafy greens. It’s a jungle in there.
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    Week 19 at the Pole

    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.
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    Week 24 at the Pole

    Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 8:45am

    If you blur your vision slightly, the green tablecloth might be mistaken as grass and the entire scene as one of a summertime outdoor picnic. But it’s still winter at the South Pole—midwinter to be precise, one of several milestones they traditionally celebrate with a special dinner.

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    Week 20 at the 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.
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    Week 18 at the Pole

    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.
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    Week 25 at the Pole

    Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 8:00am
    IceCube winterover Erik Beiser was captured in the above image silhouetted by the rising moon while out taking aurora photos himself.
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    A growing astrophysical neutrino signal in IceCube now features a 2-PeV neutrino

    Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 10:00pm

    Strong evidence for a very high energy neutrino flux of extraterrestrial origin was found in November 2013, and new data from IceCube now confirms the discovery. Once more, the Antarctic detector brings us still the highest energy neutrino ever observed. This 2-PeV neutrino event was detected by IceCube on Tuesday, December 4, 2012. It was dubbed “Big Bird.”

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