I went and did a season at mcmurdo in 2011. Its an amazing place and anyone with any amount of adventuring in them should make an effort to go work a season. It's life changing.

How does one begin looking for a way to do that?

Looking so sunny but also just remembered that they currently have 24 hours of sun during their summer.

Looks very "Martian". I could easily imagine this was a rover photo from the future.