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Antarctica is the most severe climatic region on Earth. The lowest recorded temperature is –89.2 °C.
As the northern hemisphere heads into winter, summer arrives in Antarctica, with teams of researchers from around the world heading there to take advantage of the (relatively) warm season. Among them are Russian scientists who in February 2012 penetrated into the relict subglacial Lake Vostok, which had been isolated from the outside world for millions of years. This unique body of water is located about 3,700 meters below the surface of the glacier, and this Arctic summer it is planned to send a robot deep into the lake to collect samples of water and sediment from the bottom.

This report presents photographs from the mysterious world of Antarctica, because those who have visited this icy continent call the Antarctic adventure the journey of a lifetime.

Polar stratospheric clouds or nacreous clouds in Antarctica, January 11, 2011. At an altitude of 25 kilometers, they are the highest of all types of clouds. They are found only in polar regions when the temperature in the stratosphere falls below 73°C. You can learn about other unusual cloud formations in the article “Rare types of clouds.”

IceCube Laboratory. This is a neutrino detector with the world's largest telescope, located in the ice of the mysterious world of Antarctica. Scientists are trying to unravel the mysteries of tiny particles called neutrinos, in hopes of shedding light on how the universe came to be.

South Pole Telescope (SPT). The official purpose of the American device is to study the microwave and radiation background of the Universe, as well as to detect Dark Matter. January 11, 2012.

This is also a south polar telescope, only at night. Its weight is 254 tons, height - 22.8 meters, length - 10 meters:

It looks like dirty snow. These are actually the penguin colonies at Cape Washington. The photo was taken from a high altitude on November 2, 2011.

Emperor penguins are the largest living species of the penguin family. They can dive to depths of over 500 meters and stay underwater for up to 15 minutes.

Full moon on DeLac Island, named after a biologist who worked in his field in the early 1970s.

Northern Lights at McMurdo Station, July 15, 2012. Antarctic McMurdo Station is the largest settlement, port, transport hub and research center in Antarctica. About 1,200 people live there permanently. Located next to the Ross Glacier.

Buildings at the South Pole and the nearly full Moon, May 9, 2012. Red lights are used outside to minimize "light pollution" interfering with various telescopes.

The moon and southern aurora above the IceCube laboratory, which we already talked about. Antarctic Amundsen-Scott Station, August 24, 2012.

Underground! The digital optical module is lowered into the ice. It is part of the IceCube laboratory, a neutrino detector.

The majestic beauty of the Arctic Peninsula - the northernmost part of the Antarctic continent, about 1,300 km long.

Hello! Leopard seal hunting on Ross Island in the Ross Sea, November 22, 2011. This is the southernmost island land on the planet (not counting mainland Antarctica).

McMurdo Antarctic Station, November 2011.

Portrait. A participant in the American Antarctic program near McMurdo Station, November 1, 2012.

Satellite communication dishes at the Antarctic Amundsen-Scott Station (American program), August 23, 2012. The station is located at an altitude of 2,835 meters above sea level, on a glacier that reaches a maximum thickness of 2,850 meters. The average annual temperature is about?49 Celsius; varies from?28 Celsius in December to 60°C in July.

Testing a prototype of a Martian spacesuit. Created by NASA from more than 350 different materials, costs about $100,000. Antarctica, March 13, 2011.

Interesting snow formations that look like footprints. Usually appear after a storm in Antarctica.

Russian Antarctic station "Vostok", located in the central part of Antarctica. Photo from 2005.

Aerial view of the Russian Antarctic station "Vostok". At the beginning of 2012, our scientists made a big breakthrough in the study of Antarctica. Now we will tell you about it.

On February 5, 2012, Russian scientists managed to penetrate the relict subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which had been isolated from the outside world for 14 million years.

Lake Vostok in Antarctica is hidden under 4 kilometers of ice. To reach the water, scientists had to drill a well 3,766 meters deep! The study of Lake Vostok plays a huge role in the study of climate change in recent millennia. Scientists believe that living organisms can live in the waters of the lake, although the water pressure there is more than 300 atmospheres.

The expanses of Antarctica. You can't get through here except on tracked vehicles, November 27, 2011.

On January 28, 1820, a Russian expedition led by Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered Antarctica, the existence of which had previously only been speculated. Today we have collected for you interesting and little-known facts about the most remote southern continent - the highest, driest, windiest, sparsely populated and coldest place on earth.

At one time, it was impossible to work in Antarctica for those who had not had their wisdom teeth and appendix removed. Due to the fact that surgical operations were not performed at Antarctic stations, to work here it was necessary to first part with these parts of the body, even if they were completely healthy.

Antarctica is the driest place on earth. More precisely, the dry McMurdo Valleys located here, some areas of which have not seen rain or snow for two million years.

Like many countries, Antarctica has its own Internet domain - .aq

53 million years ago, Antarctica was so warm that palm trees grew on its shores and the air temperature rose above 20 degrees Celsius.

In December 2013, Metallica gave a concert in Antarctica, thus becoming the first band in the world to perform on all continents. In order not to disturb the local fauna, the concert was held under a special protective dome, and the audience listened to the music through headphones.

From 1960 to 1972, McMurdo Station, the largest settlement and research center owned by the United States, operated the first nuclear power plant in Antarctica.

Antarctica has its own fire station. It belongs to the McMurdo station, and it employs real professional firefighters.

Despite the extreme conditions, 1,150 species of fungi have been discovered in Antarctica. They adapt well to extremely low temperatures and extended periods of freezing and thawing.

Technically, all 24 time zones are present in Antarctica, since their boundaries converge at one point at both poles.

There are no polar bears in Antarctica. To look at them, you will have to go to the North Pole or, for example, to Canada.

There is a bar in Antarctica - the southernmost bar on the planet. And it is located at the Akademik Vernadsky station, which belongs to Ukraine.

The lowest temperature ever recorded on earth - minus 89.2 degrees Celsius - was recorded in Antarctica at the Russian Vostok station on July 21, 1983.

Antarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world. Its territory is 14 million square meters. km.

99% of Antarctica is covered in ice. The continent's ice sheet is often called an ice sheet.

The average ice thickness of Antarctica is 1.6 km. Antarctica contains approximately 70% of all fresh water on earth.

The Transantarctic Mountains run across the entire continent and divide it into western and eastern parts. This ridge is one of the longest in the world - its length is 3500 km.

The existence of the continent of Antarctica was unknown until its discovery in 1820. Before this it was assumed that it was just a group of islands.

On December 14, 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole and plant his nation's flag there. He also became the first person to visit both geographic poles of the planet.

As a result of secret negotiations, on December 1, 1959, 12 countries concluded the Antarctic Treaty, providing for the demilitarization of the Antarctic area and its use for exclusively peaceful purposes. Today, more than 50 countries are parties to the Treaty.

On January 7, 1978, Argentinean Emilio Marcos Palma was born - the first person in history to be born in Antarctica. It is believed that this event was a planned action by the Argentine government, which specifically sent a pregnant woman to the Esperanza station in order to subsequently claim rights to part of the territory of Antarctica.

That’s why Google covered it with a screen, and in the old version (more transparent) it was clear that there was no ice in the center. The Moon, which I saw around May 18, was in a hurry to the South. And among all the fables there is one that claims that at the South Pole there is an entrance to the center of the Earth, as well as a masking fable about a Nazi base.

In February, Argentina experienced its worst drought in 50 years. The drought killed 300 thousand heads of cattle. Farmer losses amounted to at least $600 million in the province of Santa Fe alone (this province lies between 28° and 34°).

At the end of February, severe fires began in southern Australia (30°-40°). It burned throughout March, but we managed to cope with the disaster, although there were isolated outbreaks back in April.

Meanwhile: fires in Mexico in March; fires in the southern USA since the beginning of April (in the south of California - since the beginning of May); the worst drought in 80 years in Brazil in April; severe drought in India since mid-April (hundreds of people die from the heat).

What about our Antarctica?

In January 2009, a high-ranking Russian delegation visited Antarctica (did they accept new suns?). The TV footage showed a very bright, high-standing Sun.

From the forum:

Others build all sorts of conspiracy theories, refer to trips of the establishment and political elite to Antarctica... (Hee hee).

The dynamics of the progress of the heat since February are in good agreement with the act of acceptance at the end of January - the thermal suns came out to the places of deployment (by the way, in 2010 no such cataclysms occurred: all the suns have long been in their places).

Meanwhile, in Antarctica, the ice bridge connecting the Wilkins Ice Shelf (opposite South America) to the mainland broke in early April, and began to collapse in late April. At the same time, in May, information was announced that there were no signs of warming in Antarctica (the luminaries had left and the weather had returned to normal).

A new winter is approaching. In Transbaikalia, in the first week of September, 20 cm of snow fell and record cold came. What about the suns?
And they go to a base in Antarctica (for maintenance and recharging?). This combination of temperature maps has already come across several times:

On August 14, a thermal spot suddenly appears in Antarctica (above the scale maximum of 10°), and on the 15th, a new thermal sun flares up in the middle of South America, which disappears after a couple of days, leaving only a stationary sun in the north of South America. This corresponds to leaving after recharging, but there are also reverse pictures (with arrival), unfortunately, not so clear, since maps of Antarctica are often either not updated at all, or are given with large white gaps. It is difficult to collect statistics to trace the correlation (maps are not saved, and there is no way to sit and monitor around the clock).

And finally, the question arises: “How are the suns recharged?”

From the forum:

A civil aviation pilot I know said that at altitudes above 9,000 km there is increased X-ray radiation. If earlier, when they flew to the USA and back to Russia via the North Pole in violation of all civil transportation standards and received 5 BER doses in one flight, now the same picture is in the lower latitudes. This suggests that the “fire” of space has approached the surface of the Earth. Many types of ailments: rapid fatigue, sudden rise and fall in temperature, wandering pains in the skeleton, hepatic discharge to the surface of the skin, headaches and unexpected increase in blood pressure, etc. and so on.

Key word spoken: radiation!

The suns run on the same nuclear fuel that was exported from Russia (by the way, Ukraine transfers its uranium reserve to us for storage). That's why chemtrails are needed: they really protect the earth from radiation! Hiding the luminaries and hiding cosmic information is just a by-product. That’s why birds don’t fly to the South (usually they are seen flying in cloudy weather), and after the radioactive fog they die out en masse (like bees, frogs, and plankton). That’s why I feel so bad after walking down the street, and for some reason I don’t want to take a shower. That is why the Penza prisoners hid underground, hoping to escape.

08.10.2009:

As Rospotrebnadzor explained to MK, complaints about poisoning by pine nuts have recently become more frequent. Moreover, in various parts of the country - from Moscow to Tyumen. In this case, all victims exhibit the same symptoms: a pronounced and persistent bitterness in the mouth that does not stop for several days, as well as general weakness and mild nausea.

But throughout the second half of summer the suns stuck out in Siberia!

There is another aspect that can be tied to the suns.
Interesting Google image (border between Norway and Sweden):

It’s clear what the white circle in the center of Antarctica hides.
But what could this square be hiding?
Here is a lower resolution image (from another program):

What are these red spots?

Similar ones were found in other places, also closed.

But in remote Siberia they were too lazy to close:

And looking at them, another version arises: this is the discharge of waste fuel from the sun.

Therefore, desert areas are chosen. That's why it was so hot in the summer in Siberia.

In development of the version: satellite images.

Fires in northern Australia (the Indonesian sun only hits the north);
smoke from fires is visible.

But the fires in Siberia - smoke from the fires is not visible in the upper part of the image, but in the lower part it is not very clear whether it is smoke or clouds.
Maybe it's not fires?
And in Australia there is no smoke from single spots.

Pink snow fell in the Stavropol Territory, yellow snow fell in Crimea. The next day they said: it’s okay, it’s just that sand was brought in from Africa, this already happened in 2008 and 2009.

P.S. When the material had already appeared on the Internet, my old friend told me about two funny incidents from her life. She twice met pilots who carried out regular flights to Antarctica. Distinguished by extreme curiosity, she, almost already in bed, began to pester them with questions. There was only one scenario: with their tails fluffed up, they talked about the flight, about the countries under their wing, but as soon as the story reached the details of their arrival in Antarctica, their eyes glazed over, they apologized for being forced to leave urgently, got dressed and disappeared forever.

The photo shows a glacier located on the Kenai Peninsula, along the Gulf of Alaska, which is 240 kilometers long. Photo taken from satellite on August 8, 2005. This image shows ablations—a reduction in the mass of a glacier due to melting and evaporation, depending primarily on climate factors. The dark streaks on the surface of the glacier are mud flowing from the rocks.

South of Khartoum we see irrigated fields that stretch across El Gezira (one of Sudan's 15 states). This photo was taken by NASA's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer (ASTER) satellite on December 25, 2006.

Far away in the Sahara Desert there is this crater, which appeared hundreds of millions of years ago even before the first dinosaurs appeared on Earth. It is an almost perfect circle that is 1.9 kilometers wide and 100 meters high. Modern geologists have long debated the cause of this crater; some believe that it was formed due to the activity of a volcano.

Cloudless skies allowed for a clear image of Tibet from a NASA satellite. In the photo we see snow caps on some mountain peaks and ice partially covering the lakes.

The image from space shows the outline of a national park located in the southern part of Tunisia (a state on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa), near the Libyan border.

Two cyclones were spotted from space south of Iceland, an island nation located in the North Atlantic Ocean (northwest of Great Britain).

Even in the snowiest places, such as, there are valleys without snow (between the Ross Sea and East Antarctica). Such valleys are called Dry. Cold, dry air flows through them, rolling downhill towards the sea from high altitudes of the ice sheet.

The large desert of Dasht-e Lut, located in the southeast of Iran, extends approximately 480 by 320 kilometers. This area is made up of sand, which in some places creates some of the tallest dunes in the world (300 meters high).

Akimiski Island is the largest island in James Bay (Canada). The length of the island's coastline is 261 kilometers. The island is currently uninhabited; the vegetation there includes lichens, mosses, grasses and dwarf black spruces. The photo was taken from satellite space on August 9, 2000.

The photograph shows the Bird Glacier in Antarctica, which is 136 kilometers long and 24 kilometers wide. It originates in the vast polar plateau and moves at a speed of 0.8 kilometers per year to the east, eventually flowing into the Ross Ice Massif. Named after the American Antarctic explorer Admiral Beard.

Rub al-Khali (“desert quarter of the world”) is a vast sandy desert in the Middle East, occupying 650 thousand square meters. kilometers in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, located on the territory of the states of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE and Yemen.

Detailed image from Taiwan's Formosat-2 satellite of ice shelves (floating or partially resting on the bottom) on the Antarctic Peninsula. The level of detail in the photograph is so great that huge icebergs (several hundred meters in length) appear to be just small floes of ice.

A view from space of a dry riverbed in the mountains in the southeastern province of Fars, Iran. A wide belt of agricultural land stretches along the road.

Tropical Cyclone Billy off the coast of Western Australia.

Colorful blooms of phytoplankton (the part of plankton that can carry out the process of photosynthesis) throughout the Black Sea near the Turkish cities of Sinop and Samsun.

Image of a forest in the northern Republic of Congo (a state in Africa) with muddy logging roads (orange lines).

View from space of the Harrat Khaybar volcano in Saudi Arabia. Its height is 2093 meters. A huge basalt plateau (about 200 kilometers), consisting of numerous cones.

Dust settles to the north coast of Libya (a state in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast).

Active stratovolcano St. Helens (Mount St. Helens), located in Skamania County, Washington State, USA. The photo shows lush green forests to the south of the mountains and sparse vegetation to the north.
A stratovolcano is a type of volcano that has a conical shape and is composed of many layers of solidified lava, tephra and volcanic ash.

The houses and streets of bustling Las Vegas, Nevada, are visible in this photo from space.

Sunset on the Amazon River, South America.

This is what the northern coast of Iceland (a state located in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean) looks like from a satellite.

Clouds surround a high mountain with the long-extinct Elgon volcano in Africa. It is located on the border of Kenya and Uganda, surrounded by tropical forests and bamboo thickets. Its height is 4321 meters.