The Antarctic Sun
Inside TRACER mission control, Patrick “JoJo” Boyle sits in the six-foot square office listening to music and watching computer monitors for incoming data and messages. Every now and then Boyle points to the monitor where a
string of bright red pixels suddenly appear, indicating a recent high-energy cosmic ray event. The tone of his
voice shows excitement. “Oooh, that’s a big event… That’s an iron event for sure … There’s another
one.”