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Surprises from the Sun's South Pole
02-19-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)Although very close to the minimum of its 11-year sunspot cycle, the Sun showed that it is still capable of producing a series of remarkably energetic outbursts - ESA-NASA Ulysses mission revealed.
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- Ulysses embarks on third set of polar passes
11-17-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
On 17 November, the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses mission will reach another important milestone on its epic out-of-ecliptic journey: the start of the third passage over the Sun's south pole.
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- Solar craft reaches a new low
02-24-2007 · Science News Online
The Ulysses spacecraft passed directly below the sun on Feb. 7, looking up at its south pole, a feat the craft has done only twice before.
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- The origin of perennial water-ice at the South Pole of Mars
07-13-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Thanks to data from ESA's Mars Express mission, combined with models of the Martian climate, scientists can now suggest how the orbit of Mars around the Sun affects the deposition of water ice at the Martian South Pole.
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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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- Geyser gawker: Plans for a closer look at Enceladus
08-18-2007 · Science News Online
The Cassini spacecraft will change course to take a close look next March at plumes of water vapor emanating from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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- Huygens's second landing anniversary – the surprises continue
01-12-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Two years ago, planetary scientists across the world watched as Europe and the US did something amazing. The Huygens descent module drifted down through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, beaming its data back to Earth via the Cassini mothership. Today, Huygens's data are still continuing to surprise researchers.
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- NASA sees into the eye of a monster storm on Saturn
11-09-2006 · EurekAlert!
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet -- a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.
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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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- Neptune's balmy south pole
10-06-2007 · Science News Online
Neptune's south pole is about 10°C warmer than any other place on the planet.
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- Huddling and a drop in metabolism allow penguins to survive the South Pole cold
01-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
Emperor penguins endure their incubation and fast for four dark and bitterly cold months each year. The tight huddling among these South Pole penguins is a key energy-saving mechanism that allows them to endure the extremely harsh conditions. Huddling and a drop in metabolism allow penguins to survive the biting South Pole cold.
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