Spending nine months in temperatures as low as minus 80 C is one thing. The mental effects of three months of darkness are what will really do you in
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There’s more to surviving winter at the South Pole than keeping warm and avoiding frostbite. It’s the psychological effects the extreme isolation and months of darkness have on the mind that are the real challenge.
Just ask Dr. Alexander Kumar. He recently wrapped up a year at Concordia science station in Antarctica, where he conducted research for the European Space Agency’s (ESA's) Human Spaceflight program.
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