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Article: Greening Antarctica.(Adventure)(University of Arizona's Controlled Environment Agriculture Program )
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- Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
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- November 1, 2006
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One would not expect to find fresh vegetables growing in total darkness at -100[degrees]F. Yet at the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station that's just what's happening. Larger than the United States and covered in ice, on average two miles thick, Antarctica is a vast frozen continent and the South Pole marks its center. Six months of the year the South Pole is locked in darkness, and traffic to and from is impossible due to the extreme cold. Even so, since 1957 people have made the South Pole their home over the dark Austral winter.
This winter 64 people live and work at the South Pole inside the brand new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Living along side them ...