Examples of the South Pole in a Sentence
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On New Year’s Day in 1908, Shackleton and his crew aboard the ship Nimrod set sail on a quest to be the first to set foot on the South Pole.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2024
The return of great-power competition is bringing new instability to the South Pole.
—Elizabeth Buchanan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
It was initially designed to stop Cold War tensions from spilling over to the South Pole by designating Antarctica as a scientific reserve.
—Elizabeth Buchanan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
At the South Pole, for the next several years the agency will only support experiments that have already been approved to go forward.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 June 2023
Zimbabwe was beset by hyperinflation—the South Pole team brought home a trillion-dollar bill as a souvenir—and by mass unemployment.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Later in the year, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope team — and researchers making another primordial background map using the South Pole Telescope — will likely release their detailed results of the microwave background at higher resolution.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
Enlarge / Some of the ice near the South Pole of Mars stays around all year long.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2023
The mission—where space startup Intuitive Machines will transport scientific instruments for NASA and for commercial customers to the South Pole region of the moon—is a key moment for both U.S. space travel and specifically for Elon Musk, whose long-term vision for SpaceX is to send humans to Mars.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2024
The return of great-power competition is bringing new instability to the South Pole.
—Elizabeth Buchanan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
It was initially designed to stop Cold War tensions from spilling over to the South Pole by designating Antarctica as a scientific reserve.
—Elizabeth Buchanan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
At the South Pole, for the next several years the agency will only support experiments that have already been approved to go forward.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 June 2023
Zimbabwe was beset by hyperinflation—the South Pole team brought home a trillion-dollar bill as a souvenir—and by mass unemployment.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Later in the year, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope team — and researchers making another primordial background map using the South Pole Telescope — will likely release their detailed results of the microwave background at higher resolution.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
Enlarge / Some of the ice near the South Pole of Mars stays around all year long.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2023
The mission—where space startup Intuitive Machines will transport scientific instruments for NASA and for commercial customers to the South Pole region of the moon—is a key moment for both U.S. space travel and specifically for Elon Musk, whose long-term vision for SpaceX is to send humans to Mars.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
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