Water on the Moon Confirmed by NASA Crashes Nov 14, 2009
In October, NASA crashed a two-ton rocket and the SUV-size LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) into the permanently shadowed crater Cabeus on the moon's south pole. SHARE RELATED. (National Geographic)
Caine: Late-in-life achievements an inspiration Nov 6, 2009
Some years back, a National Geographic TV special featured Norman Vaughn, who traveled in 1928-29 to the South Pole with Adm. Richard Byrd. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Keeping Up With the Joneses Oct 25, 2009
Meet the REAL Young Indiana Jones. Friday, October 23, 2009. (Fox News)
Meet the REAL Young Indiana Jones Oct 24, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009. Andrew holding up an elephant cranium during a modern ecology study in Sosian Ranch, Kenya. (Fox News)
LCROSS Impact Video: No Sky Show Oct 10, 2009
"Hard to tell, what we saw there. But NASA achieved what was intended. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission, known as L-CROSS, first saw the satellite separate from its rocket upper stage, Centaur. Then, commanding it to crash 40 minutes later into the Cabeus crater near the moons South Pole at 7:31am Eastern time, Friday morning. The explosion was witnessed by the satellite. When the rocket hit, it kicked up debris from the crater floor. From this, scientists are analyzing... (National Geographic)
NASA "Moon Bombing" May Have Hit a "Dry Hole" Oct 10, 2009
2-ton empty rocket shot from the LCROSS probe hit the crater Cabeus A on the moon's south pole (). Four minutes later LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) performed its own kamikaze dive the final act in its mission to detect evidence of water ice in the moon's shadowed craters. (National Geographic)
LCROSS Impact: Are NASA Moon Crashes Worth the Damage? Oct 10, 2009
LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) gouged what was expected to be a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) hole in a shadowy crater near the moon's south pole, letting fly more than 200 tons of material, scientists estimated before the launch. Such violent impacts are par for the course the moon is already littered with more than two dozen NASA landers, orbiters, and rovers launched since the 1960s. (National Geographic)
NASA Moon "Bombings" Friday: Sky Show, Water Expected Oct 9, 2009
LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) and its rocket will begin slamming into the South Pole just after 4:30 a.m. PT.. SHARE RELATED. (National Geographic)
October 2009 Geology and GSA Today highlights Oct 2, 2009
The Ordovician period started out warm, with relatively high sea levels worldwide, and ended cold, with low sea levels as glaciers covered the landmasses over the South Pole. The transition between greenhouse conditions and icehouse conditions set the stage for major mass extinctions around the planet at the end of the Ordovician. (EurekAlert!)
There's Water on the Moon, Probes Confirm Sep 25, 2009
The news comes close on the heels of NASA's announcement that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently detected large amounts of hydrogen, a possible marker for water, at the moon's south pole. Larry Taylor, a planetary geologist at the University of Tennessee, said his team's findings go one step further. (National Geographic)
Autumnal Equinox 2009: Facts on the First Day of Fall Sep 23, 2009
On the same day, a person at the South Pole would also see the sun skim the horizon, beginning six months of uninterrupted daylight. Maybe Equal, But Unseen. (National Geographic)
Eyes on the skies: What hit Jupiter? Jul 23, 2009
Franck Marchis of the SETI Institute in Mountain View soon posted on his own blog about a huge black spot detected near Jupiter's south pole. He followed it with more blog posts about its nature after colleagues using the powerful Keck telescope in Hawaii saw it as "an anomalous bright spot" shining in the infrared region of the spectrum. (San Francisco Chronicle)
PHOTO: Jupiter Impact Creates Huge New Spot Jul 22, 2009
First spotted in July 19 pictures by , the blemish appears as a dark gray blob on the gas giant's south pole. (The dark spot is in the upper right of the above picture because the planet appears upside down. (National Geographic)
PHOTO: Jupiter Impact Creates Earth-Size Blemish Jul 21, 2009
First spotted by Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on July 19, the blemish appears as a dark gray blob on the gas giant's south pole. (The picture above appears upside down, and the very dark spot on the planet's equator is the shadow of Jupiter's moon Io. (National Geographic)
"Geyser" Moon Sprinkles Salt on Saturn's Rings Jun 25, 2009
The dramatic discharges shoot thousands of kilometers into space from relatively warm "tiger stripe" fissures near the moon's south pole. Many astronomers think the geysers created and continue to feed the so-called E ring, Saturn's outermost ring. (National Geographic)
Jerri Nielsen; found new life escaping death at S. Pole Jun 25, 2009
Dr. Jerri Nielsen, shown at the ceremonial South Pole in 1999, died Tuesday in Southwick. Her struggle against breast cancer during a winter at the South Pole captivated the world ... Fresh from a painful divorce and ready for a new chapter in her life, Dr. Jerri Nielsen spotted a want ad for a physician to work at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station. (Boston Globe)
Edith Ronne, 89; became 1st US woman on Antarctica Jun 19, 2009
Later, at her request, the name was changed to the Ronne Ice Shelf, to match the name of the Ross Ice Shelf and to honor her husband and his father, a member of the Roald Amundsen expedition that reached the South Pole in 1911 ... In 1971, she and her husband were guests of the US Navy and flew to the South Pole. (Boston Globe)
Moon Crash, New Maps to Aid Search for Lunar Water Jun 18, 2009
LRO will also carry a hitchhiker, an SUV-size probe meant to slam into a shadowy crater near the moon's south pole in search of water ice. NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is to careen into the crater in October, gouging a hole about 15 feet (4. (National Geographic)
PHOTO: Biggest Trilobite Sea Beasts Found ... in Swarms May 12, 2009
The critters lived at high latitudes near Gondwana a huge southern supercontinent and close to the South Pole during the Ordovician period (). This oxygen-rich, cold-water habitat may have contributed to these trilobites' gigantic sizes, the authors added. (National Geographic)
Bipolar Disorder May 6, 2009
I thought about running away from the ship, scrambling up the glacier, and heading south, way south, toward the South Pole itself. What I felt was a small jolt of the polar obsession, a neurosis that makes people spend their lives and money, against all reason, getting to the poles or as near to them as possible. (Slate)
Top of the world! Duo made it there unassisted May 6, 2009
Huston, 32, has completed a trek to the South Pole and a 1,400-mile dogsled journey in Greenland, and Tyler, 34, is an Outward Bound camp coordinator, elite cross-country skier and wilderness survival expert ... The South Pole was not reached until December 1911, when Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen won a race with British rival Robert Scott, who arrived at the pole one month later. (MSNBC -- Travel)
* The challenges of a woman explorer Feb 21, 2009
She was part of the first all-womens team to ski to the North and South poles between 1998 and 2002 ... The South Pole is much easier, she said, because its just an endless flat white wasteland. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Ghanaian Woman to ski to the South Pole Feb 12, 2009
Accra, Feb. 11, GNA - A Ghanaian woman has been selected to represent Ghana in this year's Commonwealth Women's Antarctic Expedition to ski over 800 kilometres across Antarctica to the Geographic South Pole ... Sking to the South Pole at a temperature of -30 degrees Celsius has become a journey symbolising personal endeavour and achievement. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
More of this story Feb 10, 2009
Although she was close, she never got to the South Pole. People who do that are bipolar, de Leiris, who has spent summers in Newport since childhood, said wryly. (Newport Daily News, RI)
Methane Rain Formed New Lake on Saturn Moon Feb 7, 2009
It's part of a system of lakelike features around Titan's south pole ... Storm clouds appeared mostly near the south pole. (National Geographic)
Winter vacations sans skis Feb 7, 2009
Antarctica is a prime cold-weather destination because our summer is their winter; when it's cold and snowy in North America, it's, well, cold and snowy at the South Pole, but temperatures are mildest during Antarctica's summer. Plan Your Trip: Princess Cruises, Crystal Cruises and Holland America are some cruise lines that sail to Antarctica. (MSNBC -- Travel)
