For more than a century, scientists have treated Antarctica’s environments as windows into worlds beyond Earth.
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Scientists just grew plants in soil from the Moon, but Antarctica has long provided researchers with the perfect place to test their agricultural techniques for a future in space.
Microphones on the seafloor recorded life under the Antarctic ice for two years – inadvertently catching seal trills and chirps that are above the range of human hearing. Could they be for navigation?
For just ten years Antarctica was home to a nuclear power station called “Nukey Poo”.
