Life in Hibernation
A day in the life of Spencer Smirl As the expedition objectives have been changed, so have our daily routines. One of the biggest changes is we get a lot more sleep. Rich and I no longer have to get up and begin the start-up of frozen vehicles and we also have a huge surplus of personal time as well. It has almost been weeks now that we have been pinned down by severe weather. Temperatures w…
Fact of the Day
What is the Aurora Australis? The Aurora Australis (also known as the Southern Lights) is a natural light display in the sky created when charged particles from disturbances on the Sun interact with the Earth’s magnetosphere. By extension, the aurora over the Arctic is called the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights. The Ice Team have not seen a great deal of the Aurora Australis so far, which is…
