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Incredible Raw Image of Saturn’s Swirling North Pole

November 28, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Ok, are you ready for this? I know… WOW. This swirling maelstrom of clouds is what was seen over Saturn’s north pole earlier today, November 27, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. This is a raw image, acquired in polarized light, from a [...]

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Lighting Up Mercury’s Shadowy North Pole

November 27, 2012

Part of a stereographic projection of Mercury’s north pole Talk about northern exposure! This is a section of a much larger image, released today by the MESSENGER team, showing the heavily-cratered north pole of Mercury as seen by the MESSENGER spacecraft’s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument. See the full-size image below: Remove this ad

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Magnetic North

October 15, 2010

Magnetic North is the point on the surface of the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth’s magnetic field points vertically down. It is different than the geographic North Pole and moves gradually. In 2001 it was determined to be near Ellesmere Island in Canada at 81°18′N 110°48′W/81.3°N 110.8°W. By 2009 it was moving toward Russia at [...]

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Where is the North Pole

October 14, 2010

Everyone who has ever watched a Christmas special knows where the North Pole is. They can even point to it on a map. However where is the North Pole really? The fact is that there are two poles that claim that name. The first that everyone is familiar with is the geographic North Pole. It [...]

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Solstice

February 12, 2010

Throughout the year, the Earth is tilted at an angle of approximately 23.5 degrees as it revolves around the Sun. Because of this, there are times when the tilt is away from the Sun and there are times when it is towards the Sun. Each extreme instance, of which there are two, wherein the tilt [...]

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