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Shackleton is an impact crater that lies at the lunar south pole. The peaks along the crater's rim are exposed to almost continual sunlight, while the interior is perpetually in shadow . The low-temperature interior of this crater functions as a cold trap that may capture and freeze volatiles shed during comet impacts on the Moon.
The lunar south pole at the center of this image, situated on the rim of Shackleton Crater.Mosaic image created by LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) and ShadowCam A view of the south pole of the Moon showing where reflectance and temperature data indicate the possible presence of surface water ice
The South Pole is at an altitude of 9,200 feet (2,800 m) but feels like 11,000 feet (3,400 m). [34] Centripetal force from the spin of the planet throws the atmosphere toward the equator. The South Pole is colder than the North Pole primarily because of the elevation difference and for being in the middle of a continent. [35]
On 9 January 1909, they reached a new Farthest South latitude of 88°23′ S, [78] a point 112 miles (180 km) from the Pole. [d] En route, the South Pole party discovered the Beardmore Glacier, named after Shackleton's patron, [79] and the four men became the first persons to see and travel on the South Polar Plateau. [80]
The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship ...
The farthest south record of the Nimrod Expedition stood for less than three years, until Amundsen reached the South Pole on 15 December 1911. For his trail-breaking achievements, Shackleton received a fulsome tribute from Amundsen: "What Nansen is to the North, Shackleton is to the South". [93]
After firing up Google’s map software to plan a camping trip in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region, he told CBC, he found the curve of what turned out to be a roughly nine-mile-diameter pit near a ...