



Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are working in extremely cold temperatures at China’s northernmost space environment observatory. The observatory, located one kilometer north of Heilongjiang province’s Beiji Town, the country’s highest town, is a significant contributor in the study of space environment disturbances. The temperature at the observatory can reach as low as dozens of degrees below zero Celsius.

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