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Steffen Richter/Harvard University

Less than a mile from the South Pole, the Dark Sector Labs Bicep2 telescope (at left) searches for signs of inflation.

Credit: Steffen Richter/Harvard University

For six months each year, the perennially dark and wind-swept plains of the southern polar ice cap have an average temperature of about 58 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.

From Smithsonian magazine
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