Antarctica Dry Valley

The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of valleys in Antarctica located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound and get virtually no snowfall or moisture of any kind. On a continent of ice these places are bare. On a restless planet they are still. More like Mars than Earth, Antarctica's Dry Valleys draw scientists to study primitive life-forms and to look through the window that this changeless landscape opens into the depths of time. link