The coldest place on Earth is the East Antarctic Plateau. In this desolate desert, on July 23, 1983, air temperatures at Russia's Vostok Station plunged to around -89.2°C (-128.6°F), significantly lower than the average temperature here. However, even colder temperatures have since been detected in the remote East Antarctic Plateau. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Researchers from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder looked a satellite data collected between 2004 and 2016 across East Antarctica. This revealed that parts of the East Antarctic Plateau above Vostok clocked temperatures of around -98°C (-144.4°F) during the polar night, the dead of winter when the sun doesn’t shin

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