Maria Banks spent three months living and working in a remote area of Antarctica where she was amazed by all the different types of vehicles. For more about her experiences read her blog, Drilling Into the Past.)

You think you have an all-terrain vehicle? You haven’t seen anything yet. In the fine tradition of the Mars Rover and that extremely cool dune buggy the astronauts used to "wheelie" around the moon, we bring you the vehicles of the Antarctic. And if some of these look like they were designed for alien environments … well, in a way, they were.

~ Maria Banks