NYE Concert

Happy 2013!

Beast Mode - The Pole Marathon finishers minus Alex

Keith, Ryan, Sarah and Joshua. Not pictured Alex, the winner.

13 hour time lapse of the Sun around Pole

Shot at 20 second intervals with a 5.6 mm fisheye lens.

Restrooms in the field

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Cloudy Day

Made for some interesting effects.

50 years later

Antarctic Rose Bowl greeting for the Badgers.

The snow melter at work for the hot water drill

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ARA Drillers Employing some high technology/ingenuity to pre drill an Instrumentation hole through the fern layer of ice.

SPOT 1 is back

And they brought a lot of stuff with them.

Congrats Felipe!

xmas treat, instant udon

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Lobster Leftovers

Practicing Touch and Go's at Pole

The twin otter pilots were doing their three take offs and landings on skis. Unfortunately for us we couldn't cross the skyway, but it was cool watching them look around and come in really steep.

Laundry day

Clothes dry fast in my room when there's practically no humidity.

Some neat cloud formations

Taken while seeing some friends off to return back home.

South Pole Telescope

A few days ago South Pole Telescope, one of our fellow projects at pole hosted a Ladies Night, so we all went there for drinks, chocolates and ladies. They study the cosmic microwave background. They have some pretty awesome hardware over there.

This is the 10 meter dish. The green rectangle shroud actually docks with the building so that the cryostat, which holds the sensitive supercooled sensors that detect the microwaves can get loaded into the focal point of  the dish.

This is the cryostat, hope that is how they spell it, with the roof open. 

Outside view of the dish.

The telescope studies cluster of galaxies.

This is a view under the dish itself, which weighs quite a bit and is actually sinking in the snow. These two motors rotate the dish around.

The motors are leaky, so these towels hatch some the grease and help prevent making an even bigger mess.

A large cog.

Close up view of one of the towels.

Some calculations.

The cryo chamber and the sensor itself. For the telescope to work, the sensor has to be cooled to just a few degrees above absolute zero. 

Helium is used for the cooling.

A cooling unit.

A window where the microwaves pass through to the sensor.

Race Around the World

Today was the race around the world, where participants run around the pole to cover all longitudes, thus making it around the world.

Some IceCube Ink

Time for a game of "Guess Who's on the Ice?"

Is your person wearing red?

Showered today!

Think I'll blog everytime I shower. In other news, laundry was done as well. Some tanning tomorrow and life will be complete.

Team 2 hits the Gym

 

 

How many grantees can you fit on a snow machine?

At least five more, I estimate. 

Tragedy in the Trebuchet