It is a very different environment with different challenges, it isn't that useful an analog. Many of the Antarctica challenges relate to the ice. One thing it

It is a very different environment with different challenges, it isn't that useful an analog. Many of the Antarctica challenges relate to the ice. One thing it does share (on smaller stations, not McMurdo) is the isolation and the impact on social structures. Concordia, run by the French and Italians, it has an ongoing relationship with the European Space Agency.