The 28th Chinese expedition to the South Pole took aerial photos of the Dark Glacier on the fringes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with the use of a helicopter, Xinhua reports. Mo Yubing, from the Heilongjiang Geographical Mapping Bureau, said that the whole process was carried out using a 60 million pixel digital camera attached to the right side of a helicopter. The helicopter flew 140 kilometers per hour at a height of 800 meters and took photos in the predetermined areas with a shooting range of 100 kilometers. The scientists took one photo every five minutes in the cabin with 850 photos taken in total. Read More
