Showing posts with label South Pole. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Pole. Show all posts

Friday, December 02, 2016

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Suffers Medical Emergency at South Pole

Buzz Aldrin Heading to South Pole

     American astronaut Buzz Aldrin has been medically evacuated from the South Pole, according to the National Science Foundation and a private tourism group.
Elizabeth Chuck
NBC News
12-1-16

Aldrin, 86, was visiting Antarctica when "his condition deteriorated," according to White Desert, which organizes luxury tourism trips to the icy continent. The group said Aldrin was evacuated on the first available flight out of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to the McMurdo Station on the Antarctic coast under the care of a doctor with the U.S. Antarctic Program.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Amazing Close-Up of Mars' Mysterious South Pole

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Amazing Close-Up of Mars' Mysterious South Pole 2015
The icy south pole of Mars takes center stage in this amazing close up from a larger photo of the Martian south pole and cratered Hellas Basin region captured by the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter.

By Kasandra Brabaw
Space.com
10-13-15

      A newly released photo provides a great look at Mars' seldom-seen South Pole.

The swirling white dot toward the bottom of the photo, which was taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft, is the Red Planet’s south polar ice cap. The cap is composed of both frozen water and frozen carbon dioxide, and it changes shape with Mars' seasons.

In 2004, Mars Express confirmed that the south polar cap contains water ice, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). [...]

Saturday, March 09, 2013

New Life Found in Antarctic Lake!

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New Life Life Found in Antarctic Lake!

‘Unclassified’ Life Found in Antarctic Lake – Researcher

en.rian.ru
3-7-13

     MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti) – A preliminary examination of water samples from the ancient subglacial Lake Vostok near the South Pole indicated that its inhabitants are not to be found anywhere else on Earth, a member of the research team told RIA Novosti.

The species of bacteria, whose traces were found in probes of water from Lake Vostok, do not belong to any of the 40-plus known subkingdoms of bacteria, said Sergei Bulat, a researcher at the Laboratory of Eukaryote Genetics at the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute.

“After excluding all known contaminants…we discovered bacterial DNA that does not match any known species listed in global databanks. We call it unidentified and 'unclassified' life,” Bulat said. . . .