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  • IceCube Laboratory from the roof of the Dark Sector Laboratory
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  • IceCube Laboratory from the Dark Sector Laboratory
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  • IceCube Laboratory from the roof of the Dark Sector Laboratory
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  • IceCube Laboratory
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  • IceCube Laboratory
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  • Kael Hanson pointing to where the new strings of DOMs (digital optical modules) will be installed at IceCube over the next few years. Each string requires a hole drilled into the ice over 1 kilometer deep, into which the strings of DOMs are hung.
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  • Kael Hanson describing the function of the Digital Optical Modules (DOM's) used in the IceCube Array
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  • Kael Hanson and John Hardin in the Ice Cube Laboratory
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  • Kael Hanson in the IceCube Laboratory where the data is processed from the DOM's
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  • IceCube Laboratory computer racks and cabling from the DOM's to the computers
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  • Kael Hanson explaining how the IceCube Counting Lab counts neutrinos.
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  • IceCube Laboratory workbench
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  • The Dark Sector Lab with the South Pole Telescope on left and BICEP3 on the right. Both telescopes are studying the CMB (cosmic microwave background).
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  • BICEP3 computers and telescope in the Dark Sector Laboratory, South Pole.
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  • Looking out the Dark Sector Lab window at the South Pole Telescope
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  • Logistics Arch, South Pole Station
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  • About 1/2 million gallons of fuel stored at the South Pole for use during the 9 month winter when the station is isolated from the rest of civalization
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  • Utility tunels 60 to 70 feet under the ice, South Pole Station
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  • Carved into the walls of the utility tunnels below the South Pole are niches that contain artworks created by Polies, including Buzz Aldrin's Tissue. Buzz came to the South Pole but had a difficult time with the altitude and had to be medivaced back to McMurdo. Apparently he sneezed into a tissue while here, which was reverently saved, and is now the centerpiece of the Buzz Aldrin Tissue shrine.
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  • At the end of the utility ice tunnels at South Pole is this spiral stair covered in ice crystals that leads up to the surface about 70 feet above. It's a strange site from above too, a tube with a door sitting out on the Ice.
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  • Logistics Archway, South Pole Station
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  • Sun halo over the SuperDARN antenna array, South Pole Station
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  • Interior of SuperDARN building
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  • Sugar Shack, Backyard, South Pole Station
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  • Electrical Shop, Backyard, South Pole Station
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  • An easy chair and a mountain bike  on the Polar Plateau, with IceCube Lanoratory in the distance.
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  • Rooftop of the Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory (MAPO), which houses the Keck Array Telescope. The Keck Array is being upgraded with a new telescope mount and receivers, and will be called the Bicep Array.
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  • The Keck Array telescope with 2 receivers removed and 3 remaining, during upgrade of the telescope to the Bicep Array.
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  • Parts for the helium sorption fridge which condenses and evaporates helium 3 and helium 4 to achieve extremely low temeratures for cooling the focal plane imaging sensors for the Keck Array Telescope.
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  • John Kovac, PI for the Keck Array upgrade project standing next to the Keck Array Telescope inside the rooftop ground shield on the roof of the Martin A Pomerantz Observatory, South Pole.
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  • South Pole relief station
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  • Vehicle Maintenance Archway, South Pole Station
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  • Polar Plateau with flags marking the location of IceTop surface array of DOM sensors.
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  • The 1 kilometer walk from IceCube to the South Pole Station
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  • View out my dorm window at South Pole Station. The flag on the left marks the geographic South Pole, the structure on the right is part of the South Pole SuperDARN antenna array. All the small flags mark safe routes when visibility is low, and no-go zones. And yes, that wind is blowing hard.
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  • SuperDARN Antenna array, South Pole. Medium format film.
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  • Long Duration Balloon (LDB), Ross Ice Shelf near McMurdo Station, Antarctica
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  • LDB Balloon Site Hangar Buildings, the tallest buildings in Antarctica.
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  • Crescent moon on the Ice
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  • STO (Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory) Telescope, a balloon-borne 80 cm telescope exploring the Milky Way in the far-infrared [CII] and [NII] lines. STO had a successful 14-day Antarctic flight in January 2012 and was preparing for a 2015/2016 flight during my visit.
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  • The Stratospheric TeraHertz Observatory (STO) is a NASA funded, Long Duration Balloon (LDB) experiment designed to address a key problem in modern astrophysics: understanding the Life Cycle of the Interstellar Medium (ISM). STO itself has three main components; 1) an 80 cm optical telescope, 2) a THz instrument package, and 3) a gondola.
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  • GRIPS (Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares) telescope. The GRIPS telescope will provide a near-optimal combination of high-resolution imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of solar-flare gamma-ray/hard X-ray emissions from ~20 keV to >~10 MeV. GRIPS did launched on January 19, 2016, for a long-duration flight over Antarctica at an altitude of up to 130,000 feet.
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  • Inside the telemetry building, LDB
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  • Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System simulator
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  • Palmer Station from the deck of the Laurence M. Gould icebreaker
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  • Crevass warning sign on the Marr Piedmont Glacier, Palmer Station, Antarctica
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  • Arthur Harbor and Marr Piedmont Glacier, Palmer Station.
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  • FMC Office, Electric Shop and Carpenters Shop building, Palmer Station
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  • Bio building from the deck on the GWR (garage, warehouse, recreation and power plant) building, Palmer Station
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  • Hazardous Store Building, Palmer Station
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  • Waste Office, Palmer Station
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  • Antenna, Palmer Station
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  • Palmer Station
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  • Radio consoles, Palmer Station
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  • Station bar, Palmer Station
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  • Manual control of the robot is done through a modified xbox controller. Sonar and video feeds from Artemis can be seen on the screen.
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  • Beacon being lowered into McMurdo Sound to guide the robot back home. The beacon is only there as a backup, the robot will normally find its way home after making its run without use of the beacon.
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  • #3 "Fish Hut" that serves as shelter for collecting Pteropods on the sea ice of McMurdo Sound, McMurdo Station in the distance
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  • Researcher Umi Hoshijima in #3 Fish Hut accompanied by the Weddell Seal who uses the hut and ice hole as a breathing and rest place
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  • Pulling up the nets that drift in the water column of McMurdo Sounds below the hut
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  • Crary Lab aquarium and one of B-134's experiments, McMurdo Station
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  • Cosray building, housing the longest running experiment at McMurdo, since 1960.
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  • Interior of CosRay building
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  • Interior of CosRay building
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  • Interior of CosRay building, with mural and wall drawing of cosmic ray shower
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  • Interior of CosRay building, with mural and wall drawing of cosmic ray shower
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  • Interior of CosRay building
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  • Interior of CosRay building
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  • Phoenix Airfield Passenger Terminal, Ross Ice Shelf
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  • Interior of an Apple shelter
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  • McMurdo Station, the largest station in Antarctica, a sprawling place, functional and utilitarian, a work in progress since its beginnings before the 1957-1958 IGY.
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  • The Chalet interior, administrative hearquarters of McMurdo Station
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  • McMurdo and Observation Hill after snowfall from Hut Point Ridge Loop Trail
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  • Building 155, Galley, McMurdo Station
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  • No underground utilities at McMurdo because of the permafrost. Some (all?) of the large tanks in this photo have been converted into unheated storage.
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  • McMurdo Station Coffee House
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  • Interior, McMurdo Station Coffee House
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  • Next day cleanup after the halloween party, McMurdo gymnasium
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  • Building 137, NSF Berthing, no longer in use.
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  • Skua, where unwanted, lost, discarded items end up
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  • Chapel of the Snows, McMurdo Station
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  • Interior, Chapel of the Snows, McMurdo Station
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  • Dorm buildings with view toward Hut Point
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  • FEMC Trade Shops, McMurdo Station
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  • FEMC Trade Shops, McMurdo Station
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  • BFC (Berg Field Center), McMurdo Station
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  • Where McMurdo now sits was once used as a ski Slope for practicing technique during Scott's & Shackleton's early expeditions.
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  • Hut Point and Scott's Discovery Hut
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  • Hiking toward Castle Rock and Mount Erebus, Apple emergency shelter on left.
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  • Interior of the Paint Barn, McMurdo Station
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  • Ice Radio, McMurdo Station
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  • Waste Barn, the other place where it all ends up.
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  • Interior of the Waste Barn, McMurdo Station
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  • Dirt & Glitter, Waste Barn, McMurdo Station
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  • SuperDARN Antenna, Arrival Heights, McMurdo Station
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  • Antarctic Meteor Radar array located between McMurdo Station and Scott Base, Antarctica. The radar senses meteors over a 250 kilometer radius from the array, with an average height of about 90 kilometers, and counts about 2000 meteors per day.
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