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The sea depth at the North Pole has been measured at 4,261 m (13,980 ft) by the Russian Mir submersible in 2007 [1] and at 4,087 m (13,409 ft) by USS Nautilus in 1958. [2] [3] This makes it impractical to construct a permanent station at the North Pole (unlike the South Pole).
Location of some of the major research stations in the Arctic. A number of governments maintain permanent research stations in the Arctic.Also known as Arctic bases, polar stations or ice stations, these bases are widely distributed across the northern polar region of Earth.
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos ever of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above ...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines the north pole of a planet or any of its satellites in the Solar System as the planetary pole that is in the same celestial hemisphere, relative to the invariable plane of the Solar System, as Earth's north pole. [1] This definition is independent of the object's direction of rotation about its ...
British explorer Sir James Clark Ross discovered the magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada, approximately 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) south of the true North Pole.
Himadri is India's first permanent Arctic research station [1] located at Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway. It is located at the International Arctic Research base, Ny-Ålesund . It was inaugurated on the 1st of July, 2008 by the Minister of Earth Sciences . [ 2 ]
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Arctic topography. Arktika 2007 (Russian: Российская полярная экспедиция "Арктика-2007") was a 2007 expedition in which Russia performed the first ever crewed descent to the ocean bottom at the North Pole, as part of research related to the 2001 Russian territorial claim, one of many territorial claims in the Arctic, [1] made possible, in part, because of ...