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The South Pole Traverse, also called the South Pole Overland Traverse (SPoT), [2] or McMurdo–South Pole Highway [3] is an approximately 995-mile-long (1,601 km) flagged route over compacted snow and ice [4] in Antarctica that links McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, both operated by the National Science Foundation of the United States. [5]
The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under the jurisdiction (not sovereignty) of the United States. The station is located on the high plateau of Antarctica at 9,301 feet (2,835 m) above sea level.
First photos of the Lunar south pole. USA Lunar Orbiter 4 [22] 30 October 1967: First automated (crewless) docking. USSR Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188: 17 November 1967 First liftoff from another celestial body (the Moon). USA Surveyor 6 [23] September 1968: First animals and plants to leave Earth orbit and travel to and around the Moon.
Chile's President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, after arriving at a US base there. The president said his visit to the Amundsen-Scott South ...
1992–1993 – Erling Kagge (Norway), first unassisted, and first solo expedition to the South Pole by ski, (1,310 km in 53 days) 1992–1993 – Antarctic Environmental Research Expedition – led by Kenji Yoshikawa; 1994 – Liv Arnesen (Norway), first unassisted woman to the South Pole by ski, (1,200 km in 50 days)
The Geographic South Pole is marked by the stake on the right NASA image showing Antarctica and the South Pole in 2005. The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the point in the Southern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
169 days (5 mo, 16 d) Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. It remained active until 27 October 1972. [10] Venera 8 lander Venus 27 March 1972 22 July 1972 landed: 118 days (3 m, 26 d) Venera 8 returned signals from the surface of Venus for 50 minutes. [11] Mars 5 Orbiter: Mars 25 July 1973 12 February 1974 entered orbit ...
At the top of the world in the middle of the Arctic Ocean lies the geographic North Pole, the point where all the lines of longitude that curve around Earth from top to bottom converge in the north.