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(Courtesy NASA) North Polar Cap This image is an oblique view of the north polar cap of Mars.

An early summer view of the north polar cap taken on 13th March, 1999 by the Mars Orbiter Camera on board the Mars Global Surveyor.

Pioneer 11 captured a fuzzy parting shot of the north polar region as it departed Jupiter in 1974 for Saturn.

Apparent global warming that was progressively melting more and more of the north polar ice sheet each year has been countered by progressive expansion of the south polar ice sheet.

Also, the author says «polar ice caps are melting,» but elsewhere (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooling-Arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html) we find images of 60 per cent increase of north polar ice caps!

In the very high latitudes of the north polar region the temperature change is declining with latitude rather than increasing.

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This option represents the polar opposite of all other military possibilities by fundamentally reordering the US's considerations on North Korea.

Oh yeah, when Noah (being well over 500 years old) has his ship run aground on top of Ararat, how exactly does he then get all the marsupials back to Australia, all the grizzlies back to Western North America, all the polar bears back to the North Pole, all the anacondas back to South America, all the emperor penguins back to Antarctica, etc, etc, etc?

The sea is just 5 ° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body of water beyond the planet's polar ice caps.

It appears that much at least of the surface of Mars has two seasons of vegetal growth, the one quickened by the north polar cap, the other by the south.

Scientists with Cassini's radar investigation will be looking this week at their final set of new radar images of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes that spread across Titan's north polar region.

The north polar hood is visible as the dark cap on the moon's cloud layer at the top of Titan in this image and the south polar vortex is visible as the bright feature at the bottom.

Nine thousand years ago, they survived frigid year - round temperatures in animal - skin tents some 500 kilometers north of what is now the Russian mainland, and they were the only people ever known to hunt large numbers of polar bears without firearms.

During these events, a polar vortex of up - to -130-kilometer-per-hour stratospheric winds encircling the Arctic can weaken or change direction (from counterclockwise to clockwise around the North Pole) for up to 2 months.

Growing the polar ice caps, if they crept southward enough, might drive people out of northern Europe, Asia and North America, Haqq - Misra notes.

The Bering Strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Russia, the easternmost point (169 degrees 43» W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the westernmost point (168 degrees 05» W) of the North American continent, with latitude of about 65 degrees 40» North, slightly south of the polar circle.

It's called the polar jet stream, and as it writhes eastward across the North American continent, it can bring storms in its wake or herald an unseasonable change in temperature — north of the jet stream lies cold, Arctic air, while to its south are warmer conditNorth American continent, it can bring storms in its wake or herald an unseasonable change in temperature — north of the jet stream lies cold, Arctic air, while to its south are warmer conditnorth of the jet stream lies cold, Arctic air, while to its south are warmer conditions.

She says the first sign of bright north polar clouds appeared in 1993.

The same contortions of the polar vortex that blasted more than half of the U.S. allowed unusual warmth to spread north to Alaska, which was 14 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in January than the long - term average.

In 2004, during an aerial survey of bowhead whales in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, Monnett and his colleague Jeffrey Gleason observed four dead polar bears.

These effects may not only lead to stronger warming at the north of our planet, but also at the south polar region.

In August 1596, a ship from an expedition seeking a polar passage to the Far East lodged in ice off the northeastern coast of Novaya Zemlya, an island north of Russia.

And NSF didn't get its wish to start construction of a polar cap observatory near the magnetic North Pole.

As the team reports July 1 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, supposed yeti and bigfoot samples turned out to come from bears (brown, black and polar), horses, raccoons, one human, some canines (the test didn't narrow down if they were wolves or dogs), cows, sheep, a North American porcupine, a Malaysian tapir and a serow, which is a known animal similar to a goat or antelope.

A second group of migrants that is descended from Asians crossed the Bering Strait just 1000 years ago, giving rise to the Inuits and the Athabascans, groups indigenous to North America's polar region.

In the latest sequencing effort, Willerslev and researchers from Denmark, China, and the United States analyzed the genomes of 80 polar bears from Greenland and 10 brown bears from North America and Europe.

The researchers reached that conclusion by capturing more than two dozen polar bears, implanting temperature loggers and tracking their subsequent movements on shore and on ice in the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska and Canada, during 2008 - 2010.

It's worse for the Inuit people, polar bears, walruses, and a host of less charismatic residents of the far north.

Students on Ice has introduced me to a new way of interpreting the polar world through the eyes of the young, and I have participated in some amazing trips both north and south.

Paradoxically, both phenomena are likely linked: When sea - ice North of Scandinavia and Russia melts, the uncovered ocean releases more warmth into the atmosphere and this can impact the atmosphere up to about 30 kilometers height in the stratosphere disturbing the polar vortex.

The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011

Unlike the south polar cap, the north polar cap probably consists of water - ice.

Saturn's north polar hexagon appears to be a long - lived feature of the atmosphere, having been spotted in images of Saturn in the early 1980s, again in the 1990s, and then by the Cassini spacecraft in the past several years.

Nonetheless, even if the substantial recent trend in the AO pattern is simply a product of natural multidecadal variability in North Atlantic climate, it underscores the fact that western and southern Greenland is an extremely poor place to look, from a signal vs. noise point of view, for the large - scale polar amplification signature of anthropogenic surface warming.

Four years later, on October 10, 1976, the Viking 2 spacecraft took this picture of the Martian north polar cap.

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The north polar hood can be seen on Titan appearing as a detached layer at the top of the moon on the top right.

The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose surrounded by green foliage in this false - color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in

The team was especially interested in regions near the north and south poles, because the polar ice caps are the planet's largest known reservoir of water.

Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting polar icecaps; and rising seas inundating coastal areas.

Saturn itself is the celestial tree - topper of this trio, with a wide - angle look at its north pole revealing the planet's hexagonal jet stream and its spinning polar vortex.

Impact of ice melt on storms Freshwater injection onto the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans causes increase of sea level pressure at middle latitudes and decrease at polar latitudes.

Mars landscape evolution: Influence of stratigraphy on geomorphology in the north polar region K. S. Edgett, R. M. E. Williams, M. C. Malin, B. A. Cantor, and P. C. Thomas Geomorphology 52, 289 — 297, doi: 10.1016 / S0169 - 555X (02) 00262 - 3, 16 June 2003.

If you board a ship heading north from there, just before you reach the polar ice cap you run into a group of islands known as the Svalbard archipelago.

Dust devil tracks and wind streaks in the north polar region of Mars: A study of the 2007 Phoenix Mars lander sites N. B. Drake, L. K. Tamppari, R. D. Baker, B. A. Cantor, and A. S. Hale Geophysical Research Letters 33, L19S02, doi: 10.1029 / 2006GL026270, 8 September 2006.

Evidence for indurated sand dunes in the martian north polar region V. Schatz, H. Tsoar, K. S. Edgett, E. J. R. Parteli, and H. J. Herrmann Journal of Geophysical Research 111, E04006, doi: 10.1029 / 2005JE002514, 28 April 2006.

Significantly, this water was found near Mars» north pole, but not in its polar icecaps, indicating that water extends farther than just those areas of trapped water ice, dust and carbon dioxide.

Both the north and south polar regions of Mars are covered in a permanent cap of ice, similar to modern day Antarctica.

Using infrared data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, scientists have assembled a 3D map of Jupiter's north polar region, showing details of a huge central cyclone and eight surrounding storms.