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The Most Remote Workplace on Earth
ESA’s Proba-1 satellite imaged the French-Italian Concordia base on November 21, 2012 (ESA)
Located in one of the loneliest locations on Earth, the French-Italian Concordia station was captured on high-resolution camera by ESA’s Proba-1 microsatellite last month, showing the snow-covered base and 25 square kilometers of the virtually featureless expanse of Antarctic ice surrounding it.
A cluster of scientific research buildings situated 3233 meters above sea level in the Antarctic interior, Concordia is the one of the only permanently-crewed stations on the southern continent. Around 12–15 researchers and engineers spend months — sometimes over a year — in isolation at Concordia, where during the winter months there’s no deliveries, no chance of evacuation, temperatures below -80 ºC (-112 ºF) and the next closest station is 600 km (370 miles) away. It’s like working on another planet.
And that’s precisely why they’re there.
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Post tags: antarctica, Concordia, esa, Proba, research, satellite
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