Today's post is going to be a photojournal.
After a week at the pole, I finally had a chance to obtain a few decent pictures at the geographic South Pole. There is one major reason this delay: weather. Even as the South Pole enjoys mostly clear weather, we had five days in a row of total or near-total cloudiness. So, at the first sign of sunlight I just ran outside. I share the pictures for you all to enjoy!
Selfie picture taken outside the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
At the ceremonial South Pole.
At the geographic South Pole.
The station viewed from the geographic South Pole.
With the sign and the pole marker.
Holding the Puerto Rican flag.
Pointing out to the South Pole.
The sign at the geographic South Pole.
I also wanted to share that food has been one of the highlights of my stay in Antarctica. Not a single day has gone by that I have not eaten with gusto. Tonight they served—here at the South Pole—the best pork ribs that I have ever had.
They also have science lectures on Sunday nights, and right after dinner I attended a one-hour talk on the Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (Super-TIGER), which is a cosmic ray experiment using balloons flying high over Antarctica. The Super-TIGER instruments will measure the individual abundances of heavy elements—in the 30 to 42 atomic number range—among the flux of high-energy cosmic rays reaching the Earth. With a duration of 55 days, the Super-TIGER experiment broke the record for the longest flight of large scientific balloons in early 2013. .
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