[SOMBER MUSIC] NARRATOR: Imagine the engineering it takes to build an advanced scientific research center that can cope with outside temperatures of minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit and house 60 people.
It has to be completely self-sufficient for months on end and be able to move locations quickly when danger strikes.
It's a brutal environment for any building to survive in.
NARRATOR: But that's the building the British Antarctic Survey needed-- a mobile research station that could survive in the most hostile place on Earth-- Antarctica.
This ingenious series of rugged pods uses train and space shuttle technology so that top scientists can study our planet's atmosphere all year round.
But designing something that could be built on a slab of ice 10,000 miles from home was a massive challenge.
ELLIE COSGRAVE: The people who were building it had to actually use electrically heated gloves to counteract the frostbite.
NARRATOR: The crippling cold was only one of the hurdles a dedicated team had to overcome to pull this off.
[ICE CRASHING] Every part had to be delivered to an ice dock that could crack open at any moment.
Snow drifts would bury the buildings and equipment in the blink of an eye.
