This is looking down the skiway from the road that crosses in front of the upwind side of the airfield towards the dark sector. Dark sector is an area where there can be no light or radio transmissions or anything that could interfere with the telescopes and other sensitive data collection.
The road back to the station. The tiny buildings off to the right on the other section of the station are where two of my experiments are.
South Pole Telescope and other telescopes.
More Sastrugi.
Inside the telescope! This is the small crawl space that allows someone to work on the telescope innards. The telescope can turn and tilt around on this level.
I don't actually do any work with this telescope, I was just visiting. My experiments all fall under the umbrella of "Space Weather" which means the outer most layers of the atmosphere and how they interact with each other, particles coming from the sun and with space. My favorite one is an antenna that is listening to lightening induced electron precipitation. I can hear lightening within 10,000 miles of the pole (southern hemisphere), it sounds like eating large rice krispy cereal, but cooler because it's lightening. This experiment is being done to learn more about lightening and its effects on the earth radiation belt.
Inside the "flower pot" with one of the guys that helps run the telescope and my supervisor. It's -36, we were only out without big red for a few minutes.
This is one of the oldest buildings at the south pole. There are huge snow drifts all around. You used to have to climb stairs to the door on the level where we are standing now.
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