Antarctica Time Lapse: A Year on the Ice

Posted by Ali S. in Science & Tech, Video Clips on July 12, 2009 at 4:47 pm


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Last year we had posted a really cool time lapse video “The Southern Lights” filmed by Anthony Powell who works at a base in Antarctica which really wowed us all. Now allow me to present to you folks another time lapse video which is just a sample of a larger video that Anthony and his wife Christine (who also lives in Antarctica) are working upon together.

Time-lapse video filmed in Antarctica, in and around McMurdo Station and Scott Base. Each year the sun is below the horizon for 4 months in the middle of winter, and above the horizon for 4 months in summer. During the couple of months in between we have more-or-less normal days.

Includes shots of auroras and the very rare polar stratospheric nacreous clouds, which form when ozone depleting gases crystallize in the upper atmosphere in the intense cold.
Summer population is about 1200 people, winter about 200.

This is just a small sample of an ongoing project to collect time-lapse imagery of Antarctica. I have taken over 1,000,000 individual photos and worn out a number of cameras that make up the collection of footage I have gathered so far over the last 6 years.

Anthony’s Pictures and Video Clips – “Antarctic Images”
His blog regarding life in Antarctica which is very interesting! – “Frozen South“

 
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Boiling Water to Ice Crystal in a Nano-Second

Posted by Queuebot in Video Clips on February 5, 2009 at 10:55 pm


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If the weather is freezing where you are, check this out. Throwing boiling water into the air is going to be the new “mentos and diet coke” meme on the Net.

– via blog

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by JKirchartz.

 
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An Alternative Hammer

Posted by Stacy in Video Clips on January 15, 2009 at 9:43 pm

It’s so cold in Minneapolis (-21), you can pound nails with bananas, both peeled and unpeeled. This meteorologist does the frozen bubble trick as well, and tosses hot water into the air to watch it instantly evaporate. I actually tried the hot water thing myself when I got home from work tonight (it’s -14 right now). It was pretty cool; I felt like Mr. Wizard.

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Frozen Bubbles

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures on January 3, 2009 at 11:41 pm

It’s very cold tonight, so we played with bubbles If you blow them upwards enough they have time to freeze on the way down.

Skipweasel took photographs of the experiments in blowing soap bubbles in freezing weather. The pictures are wild -especially when you see a frozen bubble bursting! Link

 
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