After more than 60 years, McMurdo Station, Antarctica’s main research center, is set to begin its first major infrastructure update. In February, the National Science Foundation got the green light to start construction on the so-called Antarctica Infrastructure Modernization for Science, or AIMS, project.

As first reported by Antarctic Sun, the continent’s NSF-funded newspaper, the project will consolidate the sprawling research station’s some 100 buildings into just six primary structur