Thursday, March 9, 2017

Antarctica

Antarctica- 1:00am




This was an interesting call because we were able to have a 4 way call with Antarctica.  We brought in our friends from Flower Mound 9 and Lamar schools to join us on this call.  A 4 way call with Antarctica is pretty cool. 

Megan is down in Antarctica for her work, shes on the largest settlement out of three through the U.S.A. Its the largest because its closest to New Zealand. She has been there for five months with up to 80 different groups of scientists, where she is basically the "Mom" of all the projects.  It gets so cold down there that if they even exposed a little bit of skin, they would get frostbite. They work with rovers and robots to test rocks and landscape, and sometime they use their data for NASA!

 Safety is a big thing they have to watch for so people wont get hurt. Before every trip down to Antarctica, you have to take many test to make sure that you wont have a medical emergency while down there. Last year they found a fish underwater, and it was the first living thing ever discovered that was the closes to the south pole. They have proven that climate change has been an impact, so they have taken fish an other sea life for studies to see what might happen in about 50-100 years, if it's very server.

 They where about three shirts everyday plus jackets, and about two layers of pants and long socks. A good amount of people down there have experienced hypothermia, and it's mostly caused by dehydration.

They have a very active community down in Antartica, they will usually have yoga classes and group runs, even dance classes! Overall, Antartica is a very unique place and great to visit there, bye!

-Bridgett & Gabi

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