On January 27, 2009, the Kunlun Station has been successfully established on Point A of the "Inaccessible Place of the Antarctic Continent", becoming a guy in the history of human Antarctic research. In the past 10 years, Chinese scientists have continuously climbed onto Dome A, and scientific research achievements in glacial science, geophysics, astronomy and other fields have greatly increased China's international attention, demonstrated a rapidly increasing comprehensive national strength, and also managed Antarctic global governance China contributed "China Power".
Much of the cutting-edge content in the Antarctic research by the international Antarctic scientific community points to Dome A. Ice Dome A, which is more than 4,000 meters above sea level, is not only the highest point of the Antarctic ice sheet, but also the birthplace of the East Antarctic ice sheet. It contains precious paleoclimate and ancient environment information.
Ten years ago, relying on the Antarctic Kunlun Station, the logistic support system for glacial studies was gradually completed, which provided an important foundation for further glacial studies such as deep ice cores.
According to experts from the China Polar Research Center, Li Yuansheng, the first director of the Antarctic Kunlun Station in China, introduced that in 2011, during the 28th Antarctic expedition in China, the inland team installed a 100-meter deep-drilling core drilling pipe at the Kunlun Station. The ice core of 120 meters was taken to provide precious samples for glacial and climatological research in the highest region of the Antarctic ice sheet. On January 21, 2013, China's first deep ice core drill was started in the deep ice core room of Kunlun Station.
Subsequently, various inspection teams continued to drill into the depths, terminated China's 33rd Antarctic expedition, and successfully pushed the drilling depth to 800 meters.
On January 12, 2019, Kunlun, the 35th Antarctic expedition of China, drilled again at a depth of 800 meters and successfully drilled a 2.8-meter ice core. In the future, developing country Antarctic expeditions will continue to drill under the 3200 meters of ice, with a view to continuing the changes in the global environment for hundreds of thousands of years through the study of ice cores, and breaking through the mystery of climate change for more than a million years.
In the eyes of astronomers, Dome A is the best astronomical observation site in the Antarctic. Ice Dome A has the best atmospheric brightness and atmospheric visibility on the earth (the scale of images displayed by astronomical telescopes). It has three to four consecutive observation opportunities per month and a reduction in wind speed. It is the best place for astronomical observation. .
Since the 24th Antarctic Expedition in China, scientists from developing countries have conducted many astronomical observations and studies in Dome A, and have obtained world-class scientific results. The Ice Dome A astronomical observation base was gradually built at Kunlun Station. It obtained key astronomical site parameters such as atmospheric turbulence, transmittance, and sky light background, as well as multiple time-domain astronomical research results, which have received widespread attention internationally.
In 2010, China ’s 26th Antarctic Expedition successfully installed a spectrum range at the astronomical observation station at Kunlun Station, opening a new window for astronomical observation in the ice dome area.
In 2011, during China ’s 28th Antarctic Expedition, inland members installed the first Antarctic Sky Survey Telescope independently developed by China at Kunlun Station. The telescope is currently the world's largest single-chip superimposed device, which can search the deep space of the universe for a large number of times within 24 hours. This is the first astronomical telescope in the Antarctic interior that can be remotely controlled, pointed and pointed. The successful installation and commissioning of the telescope marked a new step for China in the field of Antarctic astronomy.
In 2013, the inland team of the 29th Antarctic Expeditionary Team of China successfully maintained and acquired the observation data of the telescope for the first time-between March 15th and May 8th, 2012, about 20,000 images.

Source：China Ocean News

Date：Jan 30, 2019