Sentences with phrase «pass over the poles»
As the satellite passes over the poles, it's ground track is such that the instrument swath is nearly perpendicular to the sun vector.
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Unusually for a planetary orbiter, Juno will pass over Jupiter's poles.
As Cassini passed over the south pole, they noticed that the tug from the moon was stronger than it should be.
The telescope will complete one orbit around the Earth every 101 minutes by passing over each of Earth's poles.
Then the view shifts to the north, passing over Dorothy Gale crater and Mordor Macula, the icy region at Charon's north pole, before turning south to Oz Terra, Vulcan Planum and Clarke Montes.