POLAR FIRST: Passport to the Poles
introduction
Our world is an amazing place with an enormous range of temperatures recorded.
An amazing place...
Our world is an amazing place with an enormous range of temperatures recorded.
The route of the polar first flight covers extremes of temperature.
Temperatures in Antarctica can reach as low as -89.2°C while in Death Valley, USA they can be as high as 56.7°C, and that is not the highest temperature ever recorded in the world!
Plants and animals find it difficult to adapt to these great extremes of temperature, but there are some that have.
The view from the air is very different from the view from the ground and from space it is different again.
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