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Neptune's balmy south pole
10-06-2007 · Science News OnlineNeptune's south pole is about 10°C warmer than any other place on the planet.
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- A warm South Pole? Yes, on Neptune!
09-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
An international team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope has discovered that the south pole of Neptune is much hotter than the rest of the planet. This is consistent with the fact that it is late southern summer and this region has been in sunlight for about 40 years.
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- South Pole Telescope achieves first light
02-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument's first test observations. Soon, far more distant quarry will fall under the SPT's sights as a team from nine institutions tackles one of the biggest mysteries of modern cosmological research. That mystery: What is dark energy, the force that dominates the universe?
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- UD scientists build an 'ice top' at the bottom of the world
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- Mars Express radar gauges water quantity around Mars' south pole
03-15-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
The amount of water trapped in frozen layers over Mars' south polar region is equivalent to a liquid layer about 11 metres deep covering the planet.
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- The moon's south pole: Very high resolution, radar images find rocks abundant, but no ice sheets
10-18-2006 · EurekAlert!
Using the highest resolution radar-signal images ever made of the moon -- images from the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Telescope in Arecibo, P.R., and the NSF's Robert C. Byrd Telescope in Green Bank, W.Va. -- planetary astronomers have found no evidence for ice in craters at the lunar south pole. Cornell University, Smithsonian Institution and Australian scientists report the findings in the latest Nature.
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