World’s Highest Weather Stations installed on Mt Everest
- The National Geographic Society announced on June 14th, the successful installation of the world’s highest operating weather stations on Mount Everest. This will provide researchers, climbers, and the public with near real-time information about mountain conditions.
Features
- The multi-disciplinary team installed the world’s two highest operating automated weather stations at Balcony area (8,430 m) and South Col (7,945 m), as well as three other weather stations on Mount Everest. The other stations were placed at Phortse (3,810 m), Everest Base Camp (5,315 m) and Camp II (6,464 m).
- Each weather station will record data on temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Already a Member? Login here
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Science & Technology
- 1 Scientists Transform Light into Supersolid for the First Time
- 2 Scientists Discover Thriving Life Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf
- 3 France Discovers World's Largest Natural Hydrogen Reserve
- 4 DRDO Renames Astra MK-III Missile as Gandiva
- 5 India Successfully Test-Fires ASTRA BVRAAM
- 6 India, US Firms Partner to Develop ASW Drones
- 7 Aditya-L1 Captures Unprecedented Solar Flare Details
- 8 ISRO Develops Indigenous Microprocessors for Space Applications
- 9 NASA Launches SPHEREx Mission
- 10 SpaDeX Mission: ISRO Successfully Undocks Satellites in Space
