THE COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH

NASA finds the coldest place on Earth
By Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo, 9 December 2013.

You're looking at Valkyrie Dome aka Dome Fuji, on the East Antarctic Plateau. Near these dark structures there is a ridge with hollows that can get down to minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit - minus 92 degrees Celsius. A team of NASA and US Geological Survey scientists have now officially declared this ridge The Coldest Place On Earth.

With remote-sensing satellites, scientists have found the coldest places on Earth, just off a ridge in the

East Antarctic Plateau. The coldest of the cold temperatures dropped to minus 135.8 F (minus 93.2 C) -

several degrees colder than the previous record. Image Credit: Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice

Data Center, via NASA.

The discovery comes after analyzing data gathered by the new Landsat 8 satellite along with 32 years of information accumulated by other spacecraft's weather instruments.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, screen captured from video.

According to NASA, "the new record of minus 136 F (minus 93.2 C) was set Aug. 10, 2010," which "is several degrees colder than the previous low of minus 128.6 F (minus 89.2 C), set in 1983 at the Russian Vostok Research Station in East Antarctica."

Watch the video below and learn more about this desolate place:

[Source: Gizmodo. Edited. Some images and links added.]

Note: The record has been disputed, according to a Russia Today report.