"I felt as if I had landed on an alien planet," said 24-year-old Fan Rongfeng, the only meteorologist in the seventh China-Chile joint Antarctic expedition team."The air was unbelievably clean and fresh, the sea ice was so immaculate that a single grain of sand could hardly be found, and clusters of penguins gracefully waddled about."But he found that the desolate and enigmatic continent was not that frigid, with red and yellow vegetation, such as moss and algae, a stark contrast to the barren landscape he had imagined.Fan embarked on the mission early this year to advance the study of polar climate change amid dramatic global warming.His primary objective was to set up two autonomous meteorological stations tailored for extreme low temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula. This involved selecting sites, installing equipment and conducting trial operations.The Antarctic Peninsula, the continent's largest peninsula, which extends the furthest north into the ocean, is among the areas most
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