Showing posts with the label Antarctica

The Churches of Antarctica

May 30, 2022

In an article in Vice , Brian Merchant argues that the first structure that humans will probably build on Moon after they have completed bui...

Antarctic Oases

Apr 11, 2022

Antarctica is one of the most inhospitable places in this earth, with all-year-round freezing temperatures, violent katabatic winds and ice ...

Rectangular Iceberg

Oct 24, 2018

Nature follows specific laws, but results are often irregular and asymmetric like clouds and coastline and ocean waves. So when NASA scienti...

The Southern Pole of Inaccessibility

Dec 6, 2017

The cold hard stare of Lenin penetrating the icy air is the only thing you’ll come across the vast frozen landscape in this part of Antarcti...

Lava Lakes: The Exposed Guts of Volcanoes

Jun 21, 2016

Most volcanoes have a deep inner chamber of molten rocks, but this chamber is typically capped shut by cooled, solid rock. But sometimes the...

Places Where Three Time Zones Meet

Dec 17, 2015

When Italian mathematician Quirico Filopanti first sounded the idea of time zones in his book Miranda! published in 1858, he proposed that ...

Don Juan Pond: The Saltiest Body of Water on Earth

Sep 5, 2014

Don Juan Pond is a small, ankle-deep lake located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, nestled in Wright Valley between the Asgard Mou...

The Ghostly Remains of the Yacht “Mar Sem Fim”

Jul 12, 2013

Mar Sem Fim (“Endless Sea” in English) is a Brazilian yacht that was shipwrecked, sunk and subsequently got frozen in ice in Maxwell Bay of...

McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica: The Driest Place on Earth

Jun 7, 2012

Antarctica is covered with ice, but not all of it. The McMurdo Dry Valleys is almost entirely snow free. Located among mountains by McMurdo ...

Colour Striped Icebergs

May 26, 2012

Icebergs are formed when large blocks of ice breaks off from glaciers ice shelf and is floating in open water. Because glaciers are built up...