The Concordia Station is on the eastern Antarctic plateau, in the site called Dome C, at a height of 3,230m above sea level, at a distance of about 1.200 km from the coast, over 1,000 km from the Italian Mario Zucchelli station and the French Dumont station. ‘Urville” and about 1,670 km from the geographic South Pole, coordinates: 75 ° 06′ south, 123 ° 20 ‘east.
The Concordia international station has been open continuously since 2005, even during the freezing austral winter, when temperatures reach -80 ° C. During the summer, from the first days of November to the first ten days of February, it hosts up to 34 technicians and researchers. Then the “winterovers”, a small group of about 16 people, remain in complete isolation for nine long months, to continue their activities during the polar winter. They leave the station only when the new shipment arrives, in November.
The Concordia station is considered by the international scientific community as a strategic site for the drilling of the cap for paleoclimatic studies, but also for the study of the earth’s climate, interplanetary space and stars, earth sciences, aerospace medicine.
On Thursday 3 June, in the heart of the polar winter, the Embassy of Italy in Mexico in collaboration with Città della Scienza and the National Research Program in Antarctica in Italy and with the government of the State of Guanajuato and Universum in Mexico, organizes a live streaming with the crew of the 17th Antarctic winter campaign in Concordia. The event, which is held on the occasion of the celebration of Environment Day (June 5), is part of the approach path of the Science Festival Futuro Remoto 2021 which will be dedicated to the theme of Transitions.
It is aimed in particular at primary and secondary school children in Italy and Mexico who will be able to interact directly with the “winterovers” in Antarctica.
Thursday 3 June
9.00 am (Mexico) | 4.00 pm (Italy) | 10.00 pm (Antarctica)
The event will be broadcast on Facebook / Youtube channels
in Italy
Città della Scienza (in Italian)
in Mexico
Universum (in Spanish)
FOR ADVANCES | www.pnra.aq | www.uta.enea.it
FOR INFORMATION | www.cittadellascienza.it | iicmessico.esteri.it/iic_messico/it/ | www.universum.unam.mx
GREETINGS
Emilia GIORGETTI, Scientific Attaché of the Embassy of Italy in Mexico (moderator)
Carla GIUSTI, Director of ExiT, Città della Scienza
Maria Emilia BEYER RUIZ, Director of Universum, Mexico
Juan Antonio Reus MONTAÑO, DG IDEA, Government of the State of Guanajuato
A PERMANENT LABORATORY IN THE HEART OF THE ICE CONTINENT
Guido DI DONFRANCESCO, Member of the National Scientific Commission for Antarctica Antarctica Technical Unit, ENEA
LIVE DIALOGUE WITH CONCORDIA STATION
Crew of the 17th Italian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica,
led by Rodolfo CANESTRARI, National Institute of Astrophysics
PERSPECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH IN ANTARCTICA
Roberta MECOZZI, Head of RIA Service – Antarctica Technical Unit, ENEA
