Caption: A storm is blowing in over remote Beacon Valley 100 miles from McMurdo. A researcher and a journalist look out at what has been described as "the closest to Mars on Earth". The helicopter pilot waits nervously, afraid of getting stranded with frozen blades. The landscape in Beacon Valley has not changed for millions of years as there have been no liquid water or earthquake events in all that time. Photo appeared in TIME, February 2003.
