Russian scientists have grown watermelons in the coldest place on Earth

A scientist holds one of the watermelons outside the station's greenhouse.  (Image credit: Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI))

Scientists have successfully grown watermelons in an unlikely place: Antarctica.

The agricultural feat was part of an experiment at Vostok Station, a year-round Russian research station located at the Pole of Cold, so named because it's classified as the coldest place on Earth, where recorded temperatures once reached a frigid minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 89.2 degrees Celsius).