McMurdo Station is the largest community in Antarctica and a science research center operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National Science Foundation. Located at 77°51′S, 166°40′E, McMurdo sits on the southern tip of Ross Island in Antarctica, on the shore of McMurdo Sound, 2,200 miles (3,500 km) due south of New Zealand. The station is America's largest, and serves both as their Antarctic research facility, and the logistics base for half the continent. All personnel and cargo going to or coming from Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station first pass through McMurdo.
The Antarctic Space Sciences website seeks to bring together resources and information related to natural phenomena occurring in the Earth`s atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere. The central aim is to improve collaboration and cooperation among research teams with similar goals. The broad goal is to improve understanding of the mechanisms which couple solar processes into the terrestrial environment.
