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by vocatus_gate 2325 days ago
> The Antarctic environment is far less harsh than Mars and no-one maintains a permanent base there.

That's completely incorrect. While a lot of the workers in the Antarctic program (I wintered over in 2016 as a station Network Engineer) go on to work at NASA, because of environmental similarities to space/Mars/etc, many countries maintain permanent research stations in Antarctica. The personnel switch out every season, but the bases are permanent.