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  • Future at Risk for Historic Chapel in Antarctica

    12/31/2021 5:54:32 PM PST · by marshmallow · 3 replies
    Catholic News Agency ^ | 12/25/21 | Kate Olivera
    The coronavirus pandemic has suspended efforts to save the Chapel of the Snows at McMurdo Station, the hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program. But one Catholic who regularly serves at the station has said he hopes the chapel has a permanent future at the station. “We had probably the only place in the world where you would go to Midnight Mass (for Christmas) and have to wear sunglasses inside the church, because the sun was so bright,” said Robert Mullenax, a Catholic meteorologist who works for a NASA contractor. “The Chapel of the Snows faces south and at midnight, with...
  • 2 technicians killed at Antarctica science station

    12/13/2018 9:45:33 AM PST · by SMGFan · 50 replies
    APNews ^ | December 12, 2018
    <p>The National Science Foundation says two technicians working on a fire-suppression system at an Antarctica scientific station were found unconscious and died.</p> <p>The foundation said Wednesday the two had been working in a building at McMurdo Station, which is on Ross Island. It says they were found on the floor by a helicopter pilot who had landed after spotting what appeared to be smoke from the building.</p>