{"id":217320,"date":"2013-08-20T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5b124cce0fe12187f15d86bae4bbf745"},"modified":"2013-08-20T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T22:00:00","slug":"winter-at-the-concordia-research-station-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=217320","title":{"rendered":"Winter at the Concordia research station in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/08\/winter_at_the_concordia_research_station_in_antarctica\/12990771-5-eng-GB\/Winter_at_the_Concordia_research_station_in_Antarctica_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The long Antarctic winter is turning to spring at the Franco-Italian Concordia research station, which has resisted the brutal forces of nature about 1200 km inland on top of an icy plateau 3000 m above sea level. During winter, the Sun doesn&#8217;t rise above the horizon for about three months, and temperatures can drop down to -80\u00b0C.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis video shows the harsh but beautiful landscape around the station on one of the last sunny days in May and then how the darkness engulfed Concordia with its 12-strong winter-over team. Finally the Sun returned on 10 August &#8211; a memorable moment for the men and women who keep the station running and conduct the scientific work in those difficult, almost space-like conditions.&nbsp;<br \/>The video was shot by Olivier Delanoe and it includes excerpts from the letters sent by Antonio Litterio to ESA&#8217;s Concordia blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/08\/winter_at_the_concordia_research_station_in_antarctica\/12990771-5-eng-GB\/Winter_at_the_Concordia_research_station_in_Antarctica_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The long Antarctic winter is turning to spring at the Franco-Italian Concordia research station, which has resisted the brutal forces of nature about 1200 km inland on top of an icy plateau 3000 m above sea level. During winter, the Sun doesn&#8217;t rise above the horizon for about three months, and temperatures can drop down to -80\u00b0C.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis video shows the harsh but beautiful landscape around the station on one of the last sunny days in May and then how the darkness engulfed Concordia with its 12-strong winter-over team. Finally the Sun returned on 10 August &#8211; a memorable moment for the men and women who keep the station running and conduct the scientific work in those difficult, almost space-like conditions.&nbsp;<br \/>The video was shot by Olivier Delanoe and it includes excerpts from the letters sent by Antonio Litterio to ESA&#8217;s Concordia blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217385,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217320\/revisions\/217385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}