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Antarctica Dry Valley, Antarctica, 1998

"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."

—From "Timeless Valleys of the Antarctic Desert," October 1998, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Maria Stenzel