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  2. Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station - Wikipedia

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    The 2017 novel South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby is set at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station of 2002-2003, prior to the opening of the new facility. The 2019 film Where'd You Go, Bernadette features the station prominently and includes scenes of its construction at the closing credits, although the actual station depicted in the film is ...

  3. List of satellite map images with missing or unclear data

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    Images of the prime minister's official residence, The Lodge have not been blurred. However, images of its roof have been and the entrance to The Lodge is blurred in Google Street View. [6] The government of Malaysia has stated that it will not ask Google to censor sensitive areas because that would identify the locations it deemed to be ...

  4. South Pole - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe , and has an area of 14,200,000 km 2 (5,500,000 sq mi).

  6. TDRS-1 - Wikipedia

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    Because of its orbit, the satellite was able to link the North and South Poles and relayed the first pole-to-pole phone call. TDRS-1 also transmitted the first internet connection and live webcast from the North Pole and supported the first global television event from the South Pole Station - a worldwide television broadcast to commemorate the ...

  7. Satellite ground track - Wikipedia

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    A satellite ground track or satellite ground trace is the path on the surface of a planet directly below a satellite's trajectory. It is also known as a suborbital track or subsatellite track , and is the vertical projection of the satellite's orbit onto the surface of the Earth (or whatever body the satellite is orbiting). [ 1 ]

  8. ESSA-7 - Wikipedia

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    Working on ESSA-7, designated TOS-E prior to launch. Photo of Tropical Storm Shirley by ESSA-7 VII on August 19, 1968. ESSA-7 (or TOS-E) was a spin-stabilized operational meteorological satellite.

  9. Polar ice cap - Wikipedia

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    A satellite composite image of Antarctica. Earth's south polar land mass, Antarctica, is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet. It covers an area of about 14.6 million km 2 and contains between 25 and 30 million km 3 of ice. Around 70% of the fresh water on Earth is contained in this ice sheet.