The American Museum of Natural History has created a nice video about the South Pole Telescope. The video was filmed in November 2011, during the Antarctic season in which we deployed the new camera, SPTpol, on the telescope. It features SPT scientists John Ruhl, James T Sayre, Keith Vanderlinde, J. Dana Hrubes, and Daniel Luong-Van.
"The icy South Pole desert is a harsh and desolate landscape in which few life-forms can flourish. But the extreme cold and isolation are perfect for astronomical observations. Taking advantage of the severe conditions, scientists are using the new South Pole Telescope—the largest ever deployed in Antarctica—to observe the oldest light in the Universe, the cosmic microwave background (CMB)."