Right at the very south of our planet lies antarctica, the continent of snow and ice. In 1911, the norwegian Roald Amundsen became the first person ever to reach the south pole, the last region of earth that was still unexplored and uninhabited by humans. In 1959, 12 nations signed the antarctic treaty, pledging to use the region only for peaceful purposes, and particularly for scientific research. Today, there are around 80 research stations in the antarctic, used by 4000 scientists frorom all over the world. We wanted to know what its like to spend months in the cold and ice, and so we headed there, starting at the airport close to the russian Polar Research station, novolazarevskaya. Reporter approaching antarctica from the air. On board thihis aircraft are scientists from m ten differet countries. Theyll be spending the polar summer doing their research here. This y year, the team from belas is especially large. Aleksey belarus has very big program for science. Biologists, cosmolog
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Port too but only in a material sense we visit the nation where happiness is the most important thing. First though we go to the antarctic and talk to the scientists who spend months based in the worlds coldest region. Right or the very south of our planet lies antarctica the continent of snow and ice. In 1911 the norwegian Roald Amundsen became the 1st person ever to reach the south pole the last region of earth that was still unexplored and uninhabited by humans. In 195912 nations signed the antarctic treaty pledging to use that region only for peaceful purposes and particularly for scientific research. Today there are around 80 research stations in the antarctic used by 4000 scientists from all over the world. We wanted to know what its like to spend months in the cold and ice and so we headed back starting at the airport close to the russian Polar Research station. Sky. Approaching antarctica from the air. On board this aircraft our scientists from 10 different countries. Will be s
Months based in the worlds coldest region. Right at the very south of our planet lies antarctica the continent of snow and ice. In 1911 the norwegian Roald Amundsen became the 1st person ever to reach the south pole the last region of earth that was still unexplored and uninhabited by humans. In 195912 nations signed the antarctic treaty pledging to use the region only for peaceful purposes and particularly for scientific research. Today there are around 80 research stations in the antarctic used by 4000 scientists from all over the world we wanted to know what its like to spend months in the cold and ice and so we headed there starting at the airport close to the russian polaris that just. Approaching antarctica from the air. On board this aircraft are scientists from 10 different countries. Theyll be spending the polar summer doing their research here. This year the team from bellaver is especially large. Rose says would be a program for science and religion course more and. Now we b
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