News tagged with south pole
Physicists 'record' magnetic breakthrough
An international team of scientists has demonstrated a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording which will allow information to be processed hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive technology.
Feb 07, 2012 |
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IceCube: World's largest neutrino observatory completed at South Pole
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Saturday, December 18, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory sank the last of 86 strings of sensitive photodetectors to a depth of almost two and a half kilometers in the ice at the South Pole, ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Crossing the icy unknown, hunting climate clues
(AP) -- On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice.
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Mar 21, 2009 |
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Super-Sensors to Measure 'Signature' of Inflationary Universe (w/Video)
What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Super-sensitive microwave detectors, built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, may soon ...
May 03, 2009 |
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Ghosts of the future: First giant structures of the universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope report that they have discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet seen at a distance of 7 billion light-years. The cluster (designated SPT-CL ...
Oct 13, 2010 |
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Ice cores yield rich history of climate change
On Friday, Jan. 28 in Antarctica, a research team investigating the last 100,000 years of Earth's climate history reached an important milestone completing the main ice core to a depth of 3,331 meters (10,928 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Ripples in the cosmic background
(PhysOrg.com) -- The universe was created 13.73 billion years ago in a blaze of light -- the big bang. We also think that, about 380,000 years later, after matter (mostly hydrogen atoms) had cooled enough ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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The most massive distant object known
(PhysOrg.com) -- Galaxies often occur in groups. Our own Milky Way galaxy, for example, and its local neighborhood with about fifty galaxies are at the edge of the Virgo Cluster, a collection of somewhere ...
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Is it snowing microbes on Enceladus?
There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe -- just maybe -- microbes.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2012 |
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South Pole Telescope hones in on dark energy, neutrinos
Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy — the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for the ...
Apr 02, 2012 |
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft beams back new photo
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dawn took this image during its current orbit of Vesta, traveling from the day side to the night side.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2011 |
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New study links ozone hole to climate change all the way to the equator
In a study to be published in the April 21st issue of Science magazine, researchers at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science report their findings that the ozone hole, which is located over the So ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Earth from Space: Icebreaker event
(PhysOrg.com) -- This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming into the Mertz Glacier Tongue in Eastern Antarctica in early February. The collision ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 05, 2010 |
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The shape-shifting southern vortex of Venus
(PhysOrg.com) -- New analysis of images taken by ESA's Venus Express orbiter has revealed surprising details about the remarkable, shape-shifting collar of clouds that swirls around the planet's South Pole. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 07, 2011 |
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New map of cosmic rays in the Southern sky presented at physics meeting
For the first time, scientists have an almost complete sky map of high-energy cosmic rays.
May 03, 2011 |
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South Pole
Coordinates: 90°S 0°W / 90°S 0°W / -90; -0
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole. Situated on the continent of Antarctica, it is the site of the United States Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which was established in 1956 and has been permanently staffed since that year. The Geographic South Pole should not be confused with the South Magnetic Pole.
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