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    What's a winterover?

    Friday, September 14, 2012 - 3:15pm

    If you’ve been watching our website, you might see weekly reports showing up regularly. Photos of dazzling auroras, indoor station photos, mid-winter party images…where do these all come from? They are the products of the current IceCube winterovers, Sven Lidstrom and Carlos Pobes. “Winterover?” you may wonder. “What’s a winterover?”

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    Week 36 at the Pole

    Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 2:15pm
    These are sastrugi. Who doesn’t love to learn a new word? Sastrugi are wavelike ridges of hard snow formed by the wind.
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    Week 35 at the Pole

    Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 1:15pm
    One of the IceCube winterovers stands in front of the IceCube Lab with outstretched arms to a) sing the aurora’s praises, b) perform daily calisthenics, or c) scare off potential migrating birds. Well, whatever they’re doing, they have quite the backdrop for doing it—frost-covered research lab, long-stretching aurora, and star-studded sky.
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    Week 34 at the Pole

    Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 2:15pm
    It’s not just ice and starry skies. There are people down there, and look what they’re up to—a regular old county fair, pie eating contest and all.
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    Week 33 at the Pole

    Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 1:15pm
    IceCube winterovers were busy this week with various sessions of emergency response team training—fire, trauma, and technical rescue.
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    Week 32 at the Pole

    Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 1:00pm
    It was an uneventful week for the winterovers, but not for the moon. Here’s a bright moon if you’ve ever seen one.
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    Week 31 at the Pole

    Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 12:00pm
    Cold, windy, with the moon back up. We have two photos of balloon launches this week.
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    Week 30 at the Pole

    Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 1:00pm
    What is it? It looks cozy, like when kids throw a sheet over some chairs for a make-believe fort.
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    Week 28 at the Pole

    Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 2:00pm

    The US flag flaps in the wind, as it undoubtedly did in many places across the US on July 4th, only at the South Pole it was lit by a bright moon with a lunar halo.

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    Week 27 at the Pole

    Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 2:00pm

    A quiet week at the Pole. Still, there’s always maintenance to be done, like status checks of the emergency fuel tanks (below, top) and a monthly fire alarm test at the IceCube Lab (below, bottom). Quiet, yes, but bright—perfect conditions for a walk.

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