A remote region in East Antarctica has set a new record for the coldest place on Earth- minus 93.2 degrees Celsius. If you were out there, you would freeze to death in less than 5 seconds. Scroll on to find out some of the coldest places on Earth
<b>Greenland Ice Sheet</b> had a temperature of minus 75 C when the NASA/USGS team conducted the surveys. -AFP
<b>Mount McKinley</b> in Alaska (in pic), has long been considered the coldest mountain on earth. The scientists found that the lowest recorded temperature in the United States was in Alaska coming in at minus 62 C.-AFP
<b>Dome Argus,</b> an ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau, located 1,200 kilometers is thought to be the coldest naturally occurring place on Earth. The coldest temperature ever recorded there was minus 82.5 C, in July 2005. East Antarctic Plateau was
<b>Vostok Research Station</b> in East Antarctica held the title for the coldest place on Earth before the recent finding. The Russian research centre set a record minus 89.2 C 1983. -AFP
<b>Verkhoyansk</b> is one of the places considered the northern Pole of Cold, the other being Oymyakon. This small town in Sakha Republic, Russia, has just about 1300 residents. In winter average monthly temperatures are around ?45.4 C.
<b>Oymyakon</b>, with about 472 people is recognised as one of the two coldest regularly inhabited places on Earth along with Verkhoyansk. The ground there is permanently frozen. -AFP
<b>Northeastern Siberia</b> is the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth, where temperatures in the towns of Verkhoyansk and Oimekon dropped to a bone-chilling minus 67.8 C) in 1892 and 1933, respectively. -AFP
Scientists made the discovery while analysing the most detailed global surface temperature maps to date, developed with data from remote sensing satellites including the new Landsat 8, a joint project of NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS). -AFP
Scientists pinpointed the record-setting pockets with Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) aboard Landsat 8. The thermal radiation emitted from Earth's surface, even in areas lacking much heat, can be picked up by the Landsat system as the one equipped
The new record of minus 136 Fahrenheit (minus 93.2 C) on the East Antarctic Plateau, was set on August 10, 2010, NASA said. Satellite image shows a portion of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, said “I am told that every breath is painful and you have to be extremely careful not to freeze part of your throat or lungs when inhaling.” Scambos used