what was the lowest temperature ever recorded

The lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth was -89.2°C (-128.6°F) at Vostok Station, Antarctica on July 21, 1983. This record was confirmed by the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in Russia. The Vostok station is one of the most remote research stations in the world and operates on about 2.3 miles of ice. The extreme cold resulted from the absence of solar radiation, clear skies, little vertical mixing, calm air for a long duration, and the stations high elevation. The previous record for the coldest temperature recorded was at the Vostok Foreign Branch in 1968, registering a temperature of -127°F (-88.3°C) . However, while Vostok’s measurements are touted as the coldest air temperature recorded, a group of scientists measured even colder temperatures on the East Antarctic Plateau from 2004 to 2016 using satellite data. According to the study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, scientists saw snow surface temperatures of below -130°F (-89.9°C), the lowest being around -144°F (-98°C) .