area and detect where the coldest place was. martha: what do you think is driving the temperatures colder in in that area. what we are doing is mapping the minimum temperature in antarctica as an end point. but, the temperatures are going up slowly any amount art today in general but that s not really what we measured here. still the tells us something about how the works, how climate works. if we were to continue to monitor these things we might see a change in the minimum temperature over time. can anyone survive in a temperature like that? what would happen to your body? it s tough, you freeze pretty quickly. it hurts to breath. your eyelid start to freeze shut because anything with any moisture cities freezing out hard as a walk.