A photograph taken during an Antarctic expedition by Li Hang, a doctoral student from the Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping at Wuhan University stood out in the 2018 Scientist At Work photo contest organized by Nature and his photo was published in Nature on 26th April.
The left is Li Hang’s photograph: Space from the Antarctic
Li Hang was a member of China's 31st and 32nd Antarctic scientific expeditions, who was stationed at the South Pole station for 15 months. This photo entitled Space from the Antarctic was taken during this period. Nature described it as “A panorama of the night sky from Zhongshan Station in Antarctica shot by geodesist Li Hang of China’s Wuhan University in Hubei. For two months of polar night, Li and other scientists lived through darkness, cold and isolation.”
The contest held by Nature aims to show the public the hidden side of scientific work from the perspective of the scientists around the world. The art editorial team of Nature selected these works based on their visual effects and expressiveness. The contest celebrates scientists' commitment to the settlement of complicated issues. The column also published other award-winning works.
Li hang takes a successive master-doctor program of the Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping at Wuhan University, grade in 2013. His astronomic photos have been used by NASA for several times and are on display at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. He won the gold award of the first national time-delay photography contest in 2016 and published a number of feature articles in magazines such as Chinese National Geography and Chinese National Astronomy.
(Rewritten by Lu Huixin)
(Edited by Zheng Lingling Shen Yuxi, Liu Jiachen and Liu Xiaoli )
