Posted by jburk to Technology at July 6, 2005 11:37 PM

An innovative new vehicle designed for venturing into unknown Antarctic wastelands has been unveiled at the renowned Royal College of Art’s final year show, opening up the possibility of a host of new research activities in the South pole and potentially Mars. Working closely with experts from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Cambridge, award-winning designer James Moon came up with a lightweight, compact eco-friendly vehicle with the unique quality of having been designed specifically for use in the Antarctic, one of the Earth’s most extreme environments. Called Ninety Degrees South, the vehicle is small enough to fit into a Twin Otter aircraft, as used by BAS and other organisations when working in remote, deep field locations.