Is Antarctica or the Arctic the coldest placer on Earth? Why is one colder than the other? <\/p>
In the natural world, Antarctica is where to look for the coldest place on Earth. In 1983, thermometers at the Soviet Vostok Station recorded an air temperature of -89.2\u00b0C. <\/strong><\/p> This remains the lowest temperature ever measured directly at ground level. But remote satellite measurements of surface ice at -93.2\u00b0C suggest it might get even colder than that.<\/p> Antarctica is colder than the Arctic because it is a landmass surrounded by ocean, and is higher on average than the Arctic<\/a> – thanks in part to the Transantarctic Mountains. The Antarctic Ice Sheet is also bigger and thicker than the Arctic’s ice.<\/p> Antarctica is home to a hole host of wildlife from penguins<\/a> to albatrosses<\/a>, seals to whales<\/p> In the lab, scientists can artificially reduce the temperature to just a few trillionths of a degree above the theoretical minimum of -273.15oC, at which point particles stop moving. <\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Is Antarctica or the Arctic the coldest placer on Earth? Why is one colder than the other? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":34648,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/01\/where-is-the-coldest-place-on-earth.jpg",2560,1708,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/01\/where-is-the-coldest-place-on-earth-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/01\/where-is-the-coldest-place-on-earth-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/01\/where-is-the-coldest-place-on-earth-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/01\/where-is-the-coldest-place-on-earth-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/01\/where-is-the-coldest-place-on-earth-1536x1025.jpg",1536,1025,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/01\/where-is-the-coldest-place-on-earth-2048x1366.jpg",2048,1366,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Is Antarctica or the Arctic the coldest placer on Earth? Why is one colder than the other?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/34647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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