When: March 7th, 2025 8:00am (March 8th 3:00am at the South Pole - Instead of days based on daylight, work hours are based on satellite locations)
Where: South Pole, Antarctica
Who: IceCube Neutrino Observatory - https://icecube.wisc.edu/
IceCube Lab (ICL) ICL houses the IceCube data center which processes ~2,800 events per second, after filtering to remove background interference, ~6 events per second. 100GB a day are uploaded over satellite. 1TB a day is saved to hard drives. After analysis, they find ~20 astrophysical neutrinos per year. They’ve had 99.84% uptime over the last 10 years. 5410/5484 DOMs collecting data. The area where the lab is based is very snowy and has lots of track marks from supposedly moving objects or boxes of some sort. McMurdo is the largest research station in Antarctica that has up to 1500 people in summer and ~150 people in the winter. It’s home to Captain Scott's Hut (1912). They wear puffy red coats, black overalls and black and brown heavy set boots. There is a greenhouse with the only available fresh food. There are rest areas like lounges and a music room along with gyms. There are costumes and traditions where they wear costumes for fun. Everyone is on the emergency team, and everyone goes to all emergencies. One of the challenges is the isolation. The closest people are over 800 miles away, and at certain times planes don’t even fly through. There are about 5 different languages in Antarctica including English! Antarctica is around 19 hours ahead of us, making it 3:00 am on a Saturday, I think. :D
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