Today marks the 100th anniversary of Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen reaching the South Pole. The event occurred on December 14, 1911, when the Norwegian explorer and four others managed to reach 90° 0′ latitude south, marking the first time this ever happened in recorded history.
The expedition was ext... |
14 December 2011
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Members of an expedition of the Antarctic Institute of Argentina, have discovered ancient turtle fossils, dating from 45 million years ago, in the La Meseta Formation on Antarctica's Seymour Island.There are many things unknown about these fossils, like whether they belonged to a single turtle or not, and to wha... |
19 October 2010
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The IceCube telescope at the South Pole is still under construction but it is already delivering valuable information. The latest news is something it was not even supposed to see: cosmic rays anisotropy. Once the scientists' amazement passed, they started working on better ways to understand this phenomenon and... |
29 July 2010
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While many critics of global warming continue to argue that the phenomenon is not real, scientific data again show that tragic truth. According to the datasets released by the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, in Antarctica, the southern continent experienced its highest annual temperature mean in more than 53 years... |
10 May 2010
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Antarctica is host to a very powerful observatory, a neutrino telescope buried deep under its ices. The instrument's main function is to detect the elusive elementary particles, but experts found that it could also provide them with an in-depth look at the temperature variations taking place in the ozone layer, ... |
11 January 2010
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The Southern Hemisphere is known for the fact that it offers a more advantageous position for observing the Universe. Stars, galaxies, black holes, pulsars, and everything else in between can be seen more clearly from these regions. In fact, a team of experts from the United States and Australia has announced that it... |
1 September 2009
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A new and very powerful South Pole telescope is being tuned at the moment in a way that will allow it to detect hypothetic gravitational waves, distortions of space-time that have been only hinted at by mathematical calculations. It is the hope of astronomers that the new instrument will discover them, if they indeed... |
24 February 2009
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The Mars Polar Lander was a robotic mission to Mars, scheduled to land near the south polar region of the Red Planet and conduct scientific investigations related to the clime, the soil and the ice in that respective area. In 1999, the probe finally reached Mars and began its descent towards the surface. Contact was ... |
13 May 2008
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It might not look the ideal place to be in, but NASA and the ESA are currently exploring the possibility to put a permanent lunar base in the south polar regions of the Moon. Due to the unique axis tilt in relation to the position of the Sun, the south pole of the Moon is mostly kept in darkness throughout the year, ... |
12 March 2008
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The Moon base has been specially designed for future moon explorers, and resembles a structure similar to an inflatable backyard bounce for children. It will head the South Pole, for a so-called Antarctic test run, to start early next year. The prototype has been demonstrated by NASA on Wednesday at ILC Dover's ... |
19 November 2007
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