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Coastal border with Senegal near Kartung, Kombo South: 13°02′N Barbados: South Point, Silver Sands, Christ Church Parish: 13°03′N El Salvador: El Jaguey, La Unión: 13°09′N Saint Lucia: Moule a Chique, near Vieux Fort: 13°42′N Guatemala: Border with El Salvador near Garita Chapina, Jutiapa Department: 13°44′N Laos
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.
Visualization of the ice and snow covering Earth's northern and southern polar regions Northern Hemisphere permafrost (permanently frozen ground) in purple. The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are Earth's polar ice caps, the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.
The cooling strengthens the polar vortex and so prevents the outflow of the cold air near the South Pole, which in turn cools the continental mass of the East Antarctic ice sheet. The peripheral areas of Antarctica, especially the Antarctic Peninsula, are then subjected to higher temperatures, which accelerate the melting of the ice. [ 104 ]
According to the terms of the Antarctic Treaty, claims to sovereignty over lands south of 60° S are not asserted. [ 1 ] Sub-Antarctic islands are the islands situated closer to another continental mainland or on another tectonic plate , but are biogeographically linked to the Antarctic or being parts of the Antarctic realm , roughly north of ...
Region could be key to future exploration of the Moon and the rest of the solar system – but it is notoriously difficult to land there
India launched its first space mission to study the sun on Saturday, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south polar region of the moon. The Aditya-L1 spacecraft took ...
The lunar south pole is located on the center of the polar Antarctic Circle (80°S to 90°S). [2] [4] (The axis spin is 88.5 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic.) The lunar south pole has shifted 5.5 degrees from its original position billions of years ago. [5]