On September 20, after six months of darkness, the return of the sun at the South Pole signaled the arrival of spring in the Southern Hemisphere. For scientists at NOAA’s South Pole Atmospheric ...
At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the Antarctic ice. Its ...
Chill the champagne — IceCube will stay frozen for another five years. The huge UW-Madison project at the South Pole has been given a five-year, $35 million commitment from the National Science ...
The first-ever images of the sun’s south pole reveal a messy jumble of magnetic activity in a never-before-seen region of our nearest star. The images, taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft and ...
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 110, No. 748 (June 1998), pp. 747-753 (7 pages) ABSTRACT During the austral summer of 1996, the mid‐infrared imaging polarimeter NIMPOL ...
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