Chasing Aerosol Ghosts
For a big mass of air, the Earth’s upper atmosphere is a complicated place. The changing seasons cause temperatures and pressures to rise and fall,...
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Podcast: Helo Ops
Without any network of paved roads, getting around Antarctica’s rugged landscape is tough. Helicopters are the primary means to transport people and equipment to the...
Detecting Anomalous Life Swarms
The seas around Antarctica are alive, but that life is not evenly distributed everywhere. Vast regions of barren ocean are punctuated by oases of concentrated...
Building People Up at McMurdo’s Chapel
The U.S. Antarctic Program brings people of all faiths and religious backgrounds together to support science at the bottom of the world. Situated at the...
Heavy Cosmic Rays – Part I: The Flight of SuperTIGER-II
In December 2019, SuperTIGER clawed its way back into the upper atmosphere. The second flight of the SuperTIGER cosmic ray experiment, officially dubbed SuperTIGER-II, flew...
Podcast: The Lake Hoare Field Camp
Antarctica is a big continent, and often researchers need to work in regions far away from the main research station. The Antarctic Sun is taking...
Antarctic ice cores help pinpoint timing of human arrival in New Zealand
Scientific detective work has helped researchers determine when humans first arrived in New Zealand, one of the last places on Earth to be settled....
Podcast: The Berg Field Center
The Antarctic Sun is taking a behind-the-scenes look at the workers and what they do to make science at the bottom of the world possible....
Heavy Cosmic Rays – Part II: The Death and Life of SuperTIGER-II
The season before SuperTIGER-II’s successful 2019 flight, the payload had an unexpectedly short flight over Antarctica. Brought down after less than a day because of...
Podcast: Marine Operations
The Antarctic Sun is taking a behind-the-scenes look at the workers and what they do to make science at the bottom of the world possible....
