The coldest place on the planet

The coldest place on the planet is located in the eastern plateau of Antarctica, on a high ridge, where temperatures can fall to minus 92 C in various caves during a clean night of winter.

Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center made the discovery while analysed detailed maps of the Earth's surface, which have been drawn up with data from remote sensing satellites, including the MODIS sensor, allocated in NASA's Aqua satellite, and the TIR, placed in Landsat 8, a joint project of NASA and the US Geologial Survey.



This new value is several degrees lower than the old lowest temperature recorded, about minus 89.2° c. This value was recorded in 1983 at the Russian Vostok Research Station, in Eastern Antarctica.

Although these have been lower temperatures of the planet recorded by satellites sensors, permanently inhabited sites with the lowest temperatures recorded are located in northwestern Siberia, where the values down to about less 67.8 degrees Celsius in the towns of Verkhoyansk, in 1892, and in Oimekon, in 1933.

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