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Scientists recently the coldest place on Earth. Satellites a temperature of minus 93.2 degrees Celsius on part of Antarctica. Scientists still to do more tests on the data. The real temperature could one degree colder. The coldest temperature found before this was also in Antarctica. This was minus 89.2 degrees Celsius. Scientist Dr Ted Scambos : "These very low temperatures are hard to ." He : "It's almost as cold below freezing as boiling water above freezing." He that parts of Antarctica are 50 degrees colder than Siberia. Nowhere on Antarctica is as cold as the Moon. Temperatures there as low as minus 238 degrees Celsius.

Unfortunately, the record freezing temperatures by the satellites won't in the Guinness Book of Records. The temperatures must be from a couple of meters above the ice. The scientists also to use a thermometer. The satellites' temperatures a few centimetres above the ice and they did not a thermometer. Dr Scambos said he is sure that the temperatures by the satellites are accurate. He also said that they would be too cold for a thermometer to properly. He said it was so cold that you cannot the air. When scientists go outside, they must a snorkel that inside their coat. They breathe the warmer air that is close to their skin.

 


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