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Why is NASA studying Antarctica?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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NASA, America's space agency, is interested in extreme environments and how humans cope in them. Here are a few items that NASA has studied in Antarctica:

  • Hydroponic gardening
  • Humans in isolation
  • Mars rovers terrain test drives
  • Extreme cold weather gear

Because Antarctica is the darkest, windiest, coldest, driest, highest continent on earth, it offers many opportunities to study extremes such as those that humans deal with in space travel.

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