EERIE photos show a snapshot of life inside the most brutal place on Earth where scientists locked in for months to escape bitter -22C conditions. The Cosmic Ray Research Station on Armenia’s Mount Aragats sits at an altitude of 3,200 metres – more than a third the height of Mount Everest. It is only reachable […]
EERIE photos show a snapshot of life inside the most brutal place on Earth where scientists locked in for months to escape bitter -22C conditions.
The Cosmic Ray Research Station on Armenia’s Mount Aragats sits at an altitude of 3,200 metres – more than a third the height of Mount Everest.
It is only reachable after a nine-mile hike through heavy snow and howling winds as researchers work one month on and one month off, Radio Free Europe reports.
The scientists are locked in for months at a time during the gruelling winter – where temperatures can plummet to as low as -22C.
The base was built in 1943 as a top-secret Soviet weapons research facility but now researchers are studying mysterious particles streaking in from space at the speed of limit.
The facility is one of many sites dotted around looking at cosmic rays – and is linked to research stations as far away as Costa Rica and Indonesia.
It is also equipped with sensors that can record lightning strikes from miles around.
