It's starting to look like a sunset!
The sun and the ceremonial pole marker. The ceremonial pole and the flags will be pulled and brought inside for the winter next week.
Now that it is getting colder snow has started to stick on the walls. The sun doesn't heat the walls enough to keep the snow from accumulating anymore.
At about two in the morning the sun is on the windward side of the station.
This angle means the sun is lighting up the windward side of the sastrugi, last night I happened to be up and it happened to be clear and the lighting was so amazing I went outside just to take pictures.
Sastrugi remind me of miniature grand canyons, monument valleys, and other national parks' formations.
The Antarctic program has a newspaper called the Antarctic Sun. I was asked to be the south pole correspondent for the winter season so I write articles every month about life at the pole,
here is the link to the first one.
The wind made a hole in an old snow wall.
Bonus video of more boiling water out the window!
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