World's coldest spot moves from one Antarctic site to another

摘要

A swath of icy slopes in Antarctica has staked an unofficial claim as the coldest place on Earth. Frigid pockets of air downhill from the East Antarctic plateau can chill ice surfaces to as low as -93.2° Celsius, Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., reported December 9. "It's colder than dry ice," said his NSIDC colleague Garrett Campbell. "If you took your glove off, your hand would freeze off very fast."