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Coldest Spot On Planet Earth Identified

Posted by Soulskill on from the bring-a-jacket dept.

Thorfinn.au sends this news from NASA: "What is the coldest place on Earth? It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius) on a clear winter night. Scientists made the discovery while analyzing the most detailed global surface temperature maps to date, developed with data from remote sensing satellites including the new Landsat 8, a joint project of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., joined a team of researchers reporting the findings Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. Researchers analyzed 32 years' worth of data from several satellite instruments. They found temperatures plummeted to record lows dozens of times in clusters of pockets near a high ridge between Dome Argus and Dome Fuji, two summits on the ice sheet known as the East Antarctic Plateau. The new record of minus 93.2 C was set Aug. 10, 2010."

8 of 182 comments (clear)

  1. I'm surprised... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have guessed "inside Dick Cheney's heart".

    1. Re:I'm surprised... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That was the researchers' first thought too. But no matter how long they spent looking for it, they just could not find the damn thing, apparently it resides at a "secure undisclosed location".

  2. Cool! by jonyen · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a great place for a datacenter!

  3. My ex-wife's heart by bstarrfield · · Score: 4, Funny

    Certainly the coldest spot on earth... just saying.

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    1. Re:My ex-wife's heart by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Were you married to Ann Coulter? Gross...

    2. Re:My ex-wife's heart by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      If he was, he wouldn't be referencing her heart as the coldest spot on Earth. Evidence suggests it would be her vagina.

  4. That was a dumb response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What do you think will happen to all the runoff, Einstein?

    It runs down the drains that double as the heat exchangers and off the building?

    Are you really that dumb or do you beat yourself in the head with rocks every day to meet your personal goal?

  5. Q: Coldest Spot On Planet Earth by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    A: Ex-Wife's Bedroom

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    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."