Alex Kumar

Antarctica is the windiest, highest, driest continent on Earth, you're cut off from the rest of the world and in winter, completely cut off as no flights go in or out.

That's a major aim of Antarctic research, if we can find counter measures against both cognitive decline and physiological change that can be adapted to help people reach Mars.

By watching how the human body and mind adapts in Antarctica, we can plan and predict what would happen in space.

There's no variation in the environment, it's dark, it's white, and it's bland. It's monotonous and people really underestimate that.

You're so far removed it feels like you're standing on another pl... by Alex Kumar

You're so far removed it feels like you're standing on another planet.

Your hormones start to get misplaced and this causes chaos switching you from Los Angeles to Timbuktu to Fiji time zones week by week.