Snow in the very heart of antarctica has one amazing property. When the temperature drops below minus 55. 00 it becomes a drive frozen sand if a plane lands on it friction instantly sheets it skis which then refreeze solidly onto the runway. Thats why planes can only fly between mid december and early february just 2 months in every year for the rest of the time that people are completely cut off from the outside world. So vast ox water supply is drawn from the snow. The station sits more than 3500 meters above sea level that that altitude even the fittest of people time very quickly due to the low oxygen levels. Borders most issues to the pure theyre sort of put us. Through. You were working sort of. Do to put up with the mood what is a breeze hopes that open. But the. Conditions here are truly unique human the average temperature in december and january falls below minus 30 and in winter minus 80 is par for the course. Atmospheric pressure is 40 percent lower than on the mainland and
Pictures of moscows moon rocket images that were to be among the soviet unions most closely guarded state secrets. And pictures of cars minots training for a moon landing in the socalled star city near moscow the soviet union was determined to beat the United States in the race to put a man on the moon a race that would cost russian and american lives. The russians had always set the pace but in the end they ultimately lost the 20th centurys most prestigious race. I am. Opened in 1957 Baikonur Cosmodrome was moscows gateway to the stars. After the launch of several sputnik satellites and unmanned moon probes in the late 1950 s. The whole world assumed that the soviets would also be using baikonur to send cosmonauts to the moon. There were certainly concrete plans but nothing was leaked there were no official statements nothing to indicate the soviet unions plans step of. All decisions on the Space Program were classified top secret including the moon program that. One day program much
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An item of will be duly think im a little bit of both and. That there were then there were the other so interesting operator and a good example and go from there when the president of. The course. Was one of the biggest geographical discoveries in the 2nd half of the 20th century scientists had long suspected that there was a lake the size of europe subglacial lake vostok contains water that is millions of years old. But to reach it you have to drill through the socalled atmospheric ice formed by the snow that has fallen in antarctica for millennia. One theory is that the lake formed because the ice sheet above it melted under the pressure of its own weight another is that the one you cant always existed even before antarctica froze over and that the ice sheets simply sealed it in. In a different attitude state is that the said were going to do with a bit of the south of the of the good through for the birth of the better the shits on earth but im pleased to be able as a short the burd
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