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NORTH POLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The northernmost point of the Earth's axis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
pole (one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface)
Derivation:
north-polar (of or relating to the Arctic)
Context examples:
Its north pole is dominated by a central cyclone surrounded by eight circumpolar cyclones with diameters ranging from 2,500 to 2,900 miles (4,000 to 4,600 kilometers) across.
(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)
Look. I place the transparent scale on this star-map, revolving the scale on the North Pole.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Distant and quiet as the North Pole. He shall see to the boat being fresh named. She's the “Stormy Petrel” now.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
After spending more than a month in orbit on the dark side of dwarf planet Ceres, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has captured several views of the sunlit north pole of this intriguing world.
(Dawn Glimpses Ceres' North Pole, NASA)
The mission currently is performing a preliminary survey of the asteroid, flying the spacecraft in passes over Bennu’s north pole, equator, and south pole at ranges as close as 4.4 miles (7 km) to better determine the asteroid’s mass.
(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)
The new theory explains why some of the smaller lakes near Titan's north pole, like Winnipeg Lacus, appear in radar imaging to have very steep rims that tower above sea level - rims difficult to explain with the karstic model.
(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest brown dwarf known — a dim, star-like body that surprisingly is as frosty as Earth's North Pole.
(A cold, close neighbor of the Sun, NASA)
In decades prior, major British expeditions had attempted to be the first to reach the North and South Poles only to come in second place behind the Americans (Robert Peary's expedition to the North Pole) and the Norwegians (Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole).
(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Auroras at Earth's poles (known as the aurora borealis at the North Pole and aurora australis at the South Pole) occur when the energetic particles blown out from the Sun (the solar wind) interact with and heat up the gases in the upper atmosphere.
(Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind, NASA)
First glimpse of Jupiter's north pole, and it looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before.
(Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System, NASA)
