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
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
Theyll stay here until the antarctic summer returns. 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 heats its skis which then refreeze solidly onto the runway. Thats why planes can only fly out of a stuck between mid december and early february just 2 months in every year for the rest of the time the people are completely cut off from the outside world. Stocks water supply is drawn from the snow. The station sits more than 3500 meters above sea level that met altitude even the fittest of people time very quickly due to the low oxygen levels. There sort of put us. Through. The door opener with. The 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 theres less oxygen in the
Bunny boots, gloves, long underwear, cap. I am talking layers. I took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony the runway is frozen sea ice, tenfeet thick. Anthony the Airport Shuttle ivan the terra bus a road warriorlooking behemoth that takes us slowly towards our destination. Bus driver were driving ivan. 40feet long 67,000 pounds, 23 years old, made out of good canadian steel. Sometimes the heat actually works. This year it does. Anthony its no short hop to antarctica, and no easy thing to see it the way it should be seen. The last un[ bleep ] up place on earth. Bus driver here we are. Try to get plenty of rest and enjoy the antarctic. Anthony Mcmurdo Station, the largest u. S. Base on the continent. The hub, supply and support center for everything we do here in antarctica. The pursuit of pure scie
I am talking layers. I took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony the runway is frozen sea ice, tenfeet thick. Anthony the Airport Shuttle ivan the terra bus a road warriorlooking behemoth that takes us slowly towards our destination. Bus driver were driving ivan. 40feet long 67,000 pounds, 23 years old, made out of good canadian steel. Sometimes the heat actually works. This year it does. Anthony its no short hop to antarctica, and no easy thing to see it the way it should be seen. The last un[ bleep ] up place on earth. Bus driver here we are. Try to get plenty of rest and enjoy the antarctic. Anthony Mcmurdo Station, the largest u. S. Base on the continent. The hub, supply and support center for everything we do here in antarctica. The pursuit of pure science. It aint pretty. It looks like a minin