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About 10,000 tourists every year visit Antarctica- the coldest place in the world. Only about 1,000 people live there throughout the freezing winters, however when the temperature can be as low as minus 90 Centigrade. The low temperatures in Antarctica are absolutely vital to the world’s ecosystem. As world temperatures rise and ice melts, sea levels rise and people all over the world will be affected more and more.
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Many of us are planning future vacations to warm and exotic places like Indonesia, Egypt and Philippines, but what if a tell you that there is a journey like no other…. You can experience the magic of Antarctica aboard the luxury travel ship Marco Polo. Orient Lines are offering you trip to the magical scenery, animals and unique contours of the forgotten continent Antarctica.
Antarctica it’s a place that calls to explorers, pioneers, scientists and anyone with a love of nature. When you see Antarctica from the broad teak decks of Marco Polo, you’ll feel a sense of wonder evoked by few travel experiences. It truly is the adventure of a lifetime. they say and i believe it is true.
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Nacreous clouds glow brightly with vivid iridescent colours. They are wave clouds and their undulating sheet-like forms reveal the winds and waves of the stratosphere.
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Aurora is the collective name given to the photons (light) emitted by atoms, molecules and ions that have been excited by energetic charged particles (principally electrons) travelling along magnetic field lines into the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Aurora results from the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth’s magnetic field.

The amazing color displays and formations are produced by the solar wind - a stream of electrons and protons coming from the sun — as it collides with gases in the upper atmosphere. These collisions produce electrical discharges which energize atoms of oxygen and nitrogen causing the release of various colors of light. Earth’s magnetic field channels these discharges toward the poles. Variations in sunspot activity or the occurrence of so-called ‘coronal holes’ can often considerably enhance the auroral discharge adding to the intensity and duration of the displays.

The global distribution of auroral activity is an oval around the magnetic poles in both hemispheres. As the level of magnetic disturbance of the Earth’s magnetic field increases, the oval of auroral activity expands equatorward. Known as ‘Aurora borealis’ in the north, auroras occur in the upper atmosphere of both poles and are occasionally visible from middle latitudes as a dark red glow near the poleward horizon.
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