Secret Antarctic TaiShan Railway Station: LED living room lights simulate diurnal changes

It is understood that the TaiShan Railway Station is located between Zhongshan Railway Station and Kunlun station Princess Elizabeth, on the pitch I Zhongshan Railway Station 522 kilometers south of Antarctic ice sheet, 2600 meters above sea level, the average annual temperature of -36.6 degrees, as the inland Antarctic Research Station in summer. The main building is composed of 28 members of the Chinese Antarctic scientific expedition team of thirtieth people responsible for the construction, built in 53 days.

TaiShan Railway Station design and construction area of 1000 square meters, the main building of 410 square meters, with an assembled modular light metal construction, at the bottom of the support using the whole overhead, looks like Chinese lanterns, can satisfy 20 people for investigation of life, service life of 15 years.

Director of the State Oceanic Administration's polar expedition, said Qu Zhou said that in the future, China will also be in Vitoria (Ross Sea region) to establish a new perennial research site. By then, China will be in the Antarctic continent for the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic and India ocean in three directions have an inspection station.

Living room lights can simulate the diurnal changes

The main building of TaiShan Railway Station has three layers, one is the equipment layer, the other is the living layer and the three layer is the scientific research level. In the two floor of the living area, is the middle of a larger circular living room, for scientific research personnel to eat, meeting, academic discussion.

The top of the living room is two rows of LED lights, which can simulate the change of light in a year or even a day. The expedition in the summer as the TaiShan Railway Station station work, in the day of the state, lighting changes, to the regulatory role for members of the scientific research and life.

The living room is located in the periphery of the expedition team's dormitory and wash room. The dormitory has 4 bunk beds distribution for the middle bed, desk. In the position of the door for the heating system of the dormitory, in order to let the team more personal heating, heating mouth in waist position, different from ordinary room in the top of the house.