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📍What do you do when the sun rises for the first time in six months? Play golf, of course!

Read more about week 39 at the Pole ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Camille Parisel, IceCube/NSF

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In the snowy Antarctic, at the South Pole marker, which is surrounded by flags of different nations, people in red coats stand while one person prepares to put with a golf club. The sky glows from a newly risen sun.
October 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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📍The sun is almost here! ☀️ Our winterovers stayed busy with detector and seasonal station activities.

Read more about week 38 at the Pole ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF

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Sastrugi in front of a row of flags at the South Pole.
September 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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📍Here comes the sun!

Read more about week 36 at the Pole ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF

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A building with glowing orange lights sits atop a snow-covered landscape with the faint, blue glow of sunrise behind it, while the edges of the image remain dark. A building from the side sits amid the polar landscape, with the faint blue glow of sunrise lighting the sky in the distance. Smoke billows from a building covered in darkness, while behind it, a pale blue sunrise creates a sharp distinction between building and sky.
September 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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📍There are tunnels at the South Pole! Can you guess where they lead? 🕵️

Read more about week 32 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF

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Pipes line a sparsely lit tunnel beneath the South Pole.
August 12, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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📍The auroras were quite spectacular last week at the Pole! ✨

Read more about week 33 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Camille Parisel, IceCube/NSF

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Bright green aurora lights illuminate the sky, while a red glowing light illuminates the snow at the South Pole.
August 21, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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📍Last week, improved weather conditions allowed IceCube winterovers to host an open house at the IceCube Lab!

Read more about week 27 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF

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In the IceCube Lab, IceCube winterovers pose for a photo with more people.
July 13, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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📍Look at all that food! For community cook day, the science group prepared lunch for the station, giving the galley staff a much-needed break. 🥦 🍗 🍚

Read about week 34 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF

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Lettuce, chicken, tempeh, and rice in serving trays.
August 27, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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📍It will still be some time before the South Pole sees the sun, but the moon certainly brightened things up last week! 🌙

Read more about week 31 at the Pole ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Camille Parisel, IceCube/NSF

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A bright moon shines on the horizon at the South Pole.
August 7, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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📍A concert and a slowly brightening sky... Summer is coming to the South Pole!

Read more about week 35 at the Pole ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Camille Parisel, IceCube/NSF

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Live band performing with guitars, drums and amps, bathed in multicolored laser-like dots and streaks from a long-exposure light show. Faint light glows on the horizon at the South Pole, while the rest of the sky is dark and starry, with faint auroras.
September 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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📍Last week, on a continent far, far away, a winterover snapped a familiar looking picture...

Read more about week 37 at the Pole ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF, Disney/Lucasfilm

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Three large structures in the distance are silhouetted by the sunrise at the horizon line, while the rest of the snowy landscape is bathed in darkness. A still shot from Star Wars: a New Hope shows Luke Skywalker looking out at two suns setting over the desert of Tatooine, with the sky bathed in purple.
September 18, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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📍It's Christmas in July down at the Pole! 🎄 That wasn't the only event underway last week though...

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📸: Charles Roberts, NSF

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A common area is decorated with Christmas celebrations, including a Christmas tree.
July 31, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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📍Although things were busy at the Pole, you wouldn't know it from this peaceful shot of the ICL. 🌌

Read more about week 28 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF

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The ICL sits serenely against a backdrop of the starry night sky.
July 16, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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📍Last week at the Pole saw some bad weather, but the winterovers took the opportunity to score serious aura points. 🌌✨

Read more about week 26 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸: Francisco Quiros, NSF

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A bright moon shines on a snowy landscape glowing in red light at the South Pole.
July 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM