Life at the South Pole

Terry has spent a couple of Antarctica summers at the Pole, and she's about to start her second WINTER there (that would be our summer in the US). The sun does not even show from March 21 to September 21 and it's always COLD. She has given us permission to publish the email reports she's sending from WAY down under and we thought we'd set up a space for her here to do that.

It's dark and COLD down there. She'll be back on the ice in February. There will be no mail in or out until October, maybe early November. Can you say isolated? Terry spent some time in Montana in January, 2008, before heading back south. Look for updates in her blog below.

They have Internet access 12 hours a day down there, when things line up with the satellites but, for now, we're going to pass things along from her. We'll see if we can get her engaged here a little later. For now anyway, you won't see any responses here to "friend" requests."

Check out the South Pole WebCam:

"This photo is of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station taken every 15 minutes (if a relay satellite is available for transmission) from the roof of the National Science Foundation's Atmospheric Research Observatory which houses NOAA/ESRL's Clean Air Facility. In order to preserve the life of the camera, it is tilted down onto the snow when the sun is in the field of view, which occurs for several weeks around sunset (March) and sunrise (September) when the sun marches in a circle above the horizon. From mid-April until mid-August the moon and the aurora australis provide the only natural lighting."