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INDIAN ANTARCTIC PROGRAM
- The Indian Antarctic Program is a multi- disciplinary, multi-institutional program under the control of the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. It was initiated in 1981 with the first Indian expedition to Antarctica
ANTARCTICA
INDIAN ANTARCTIC PROGRAM
- Current research stations
- Maitri (research station)
- Bharati (research station)
RECENT EVENTS
- Over the past few weeks, snow around Ukraine’s Vernadsky Research Base, located off the coast of Antarctica’s northernmost peninsula, has started to take on a red tinge, courtesy of an algae that thrives in freezing Because of the red tinge, the snow is often dubbed “watermelon snow”.
WHY IS THE SNOW TURNING RED?
- According to a 2016 report in The New York Times, such algae as found around the Ukrainian research base grow well in freezing temperatures and liquid water.
- During the summer, when these typically green algae get a lot of sun, they start producing a natural sunscreen that paints the snow in shades of pink and red. In the winter months, they lie dormant.
CHLAMYDOMONAS NIVALIS
- Chlamydomonas nivalis is a unicellular red- coloured photosynthetic green alga that is found in the snowfields of the alps and polar regions all over the world.
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