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World-first views of the Sun's poles released - but scientists say best is yet to come
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft travelled 15 degrees below the sun's solar equator to take the images in mid-March - with the ...
The sun's poles have flipped. A spacecraft is watching what happens next.
The Solar Orbiter, a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, captured detailed images of the sun’s southern region in March, something no other probe has done at close range.
Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Obtains First Images of the Sun's Poles
(Reuters) -The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists ...
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Is the world map we've know all our lives really a lie?
In a fascinating exposé, a visual campaign reveals that the familiar world map we all grew up with is more illusion than fact ...
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China uses world’s biggest radio telescope to map lunar south pole water ice
The world’s big space powers are racing to send ... In recent years, scientists have focused on the potential of the lunar south pole as a vast source of water ice. Now, new observations from ...
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First humans to orbit Earth’s poles capture breathtaking images of ‘pure white’ region during historic SpaceX mission
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has since praised the space explorers on social media as “the first astronauts to orbit the poles.” No human has ever traveled directly over the Earth’s poles from ...
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This map corrects everything you thought you knew about the world
SEE ALSO: In a world of Google maps, bespoke handcrafted globes are ... Mashable AuthaGraph mostly fixes the problem of land masses towards the poles being enlarged and distorted, while giving ...