Category : Operations

They fly over outdoor concerts and battlefields. They come in all shapes and sizes Unmanned aerial vehicles are increasingly filling airspaces around the world. Antarctica...

Two aircraft carrying more than 160 people landed on a runway made of ice on the Ross Ice Shelf on Tuesday, kicking off the 2014-15...

Thanks to advances in technology and capability, McMurdo Station can be reached safely at any time of the year in the case of an emergency....

Between the few brief months when the sea ice in McMurdo Sound finally solidifies and then starts to fall apart again, scientists and support personnel...

McMurdo Communications Operations, better known as MacOps, is the nerve center for radio traffic between the research station and field parties as close as the...

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star reached McMurdo Station on Jan. 18 for a one-day port call before returning to McMurdo Sound to continue...

The cargo vessel chartered to resupply two of the National Science Foundation’s research stations in Antarctica seems up to the task based on name alone....

Every year a fuel vessel, above, arrives at McMurdo Station. Invariably, the weather takes a turn for the worse, with colder temperatures and high winds...

After more than two years since launching the SuperTIGER Long Duration Balloon, a joint team of scientists, mountaineers and support personnel finally recovered the buried...

Residents wintering at McMurdo Station saw a rare sight in June; A United States Air Force C-17 touching down at the Pegasus Airfield during Antarctica’s...