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Adj.1.north-polar - of or relating to the Arctic; "the Arctic summer"
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polar - of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles; "polar regions"
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A very favorable north-polar libration --just under 7[degrees]--occurs on May 24th.
Peaks of "eternal" light: if we ever try to live on the moon, the best locations will be polar mountains bathed in nearly continuous sunlight
Washington, September 23 (ANI): New, three-dimensional imaging of Martian north-polar ice layers by a radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter matches with theoretical models of Martian climate swings during the past few million years.
Radar map of buried Mars layers matches planet's climate cycles
An earlier, briefer study of the Martian north-polar region with the same radar detector found no such depressions beneath the vast deposits of water-ice there.
Radar probes frozen water at Martian pole
In any case, the north-polar hexagon is huge, spanning 25,000 km (twice Earth's diameter), and it subtends more than 3 arcseconds for earthbound observers--four times the apparent diameter of Titan, Saturn's largest satellite.
A polar expedition to Saturn: why is the ringed planet crowned by a distinct hexagonal cloud pattern?
Last summer, NASA announced plans to launch a lander to the north-polar regions of Mars in 2007.
Martian invasion: probing lively puzzles on the red planet
While all that digging and digesting goes on, Phoenix is keeping track of the north-polar weather using a meteorological station built by the Canadian Space Agency with contributions from Danish and Finnish teams.
Polar prospector: other NASA craft have looked, listened, and felt the Martian surface. Now the Phoenix lander is smelling and tasting

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