{"id":18940,"date":"2013-12-11T01:32:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T23:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18940"},"modified":"2013-12-11T01:44:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T23:44:41","slug":"coldest-spot-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/11\/coldest-spot-planet-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Coldest Spot On Planet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/13\/12\/10\/1921246\/coldest-spot-on-planet-earth-identified\">Slashdot<\/a> lets us know that we finally know where&#8217;s the most freezing place on Earth:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is the coldest place on Earth? It is <strong>a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau<\/strong> where temperatures in several hollows can dip <strong>below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius)<\/strong> on a clear winter night. Scientists made the discovery while analyzing the most detailed global surface temperature maps to date, developed with data from remote sensing satellites including the new Landsat 8, a joint project of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., joined a team of researchers reporting the findings Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. Researchers analyzed <strong>32 years&#8217; worth of data<\/strong> from several satellite instruments. They found temperatures plummeted to record lows dozens of times in clusters of pockets near a high ridge between Dome Argus and Dome Fuji, two summits on the ice sheet known as the East Antarctic Plateau. <strong>The new record of minus 93.2 C was set Aug. 10, 2010<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The linked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/goddard\/nasa-usgs-landsat-8-satellite-pinpoints-coldest-spots-on-earth\/index.html#.UqeGOXkW3f2\">article from NASA<\/a> has a nice visualization in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hp6wMUVb23c\">the YouTube video<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hp6wMUVb23c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One thing that is not so obvious about this research is the problem with tools &#8211; most thermometers that we are using elsewhere will simply stop working at these temperatures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And just in case you were wondering how cold is it in space, here is a very nice explanation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6QE3oHoTgUQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Slashdot lets us know that we finally know where&#8217;s the most freezing place on Earth: What is the coldest place on Earth? It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius) on a clear winter night. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/11\/coldest-spot-planet-earth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coldest Spot On Planet Earth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3250,2298,841,1117,655,53,525,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antarctica","tag-global-warming","tag-nature","tag-research","tag-science","tag-space","tag-weather","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25004,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/30\/coldest-oldest-fastest-10-extreme-sea-creatures\/","url_meta":{"origin":18940,"position":0},"title":"Coldest, oldest, fastest : 10 extreme sea creatures","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Coldest, oldest, fastest : 10 extreme sea creatures - these are amazing, both in looks and facts. \u00a0Here are my favorite two. 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