... At the key middle school in Beijing, I was amazed to find a 0.4-meter (16- inch) computer-controlled alt-azimuth telescope that had been designed for use at the SouthPole, part of a China-U.S. project that never received funding. ...
... the Lunar Crater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is scheduled for launch this summer and will send an impactor to the lunar surface this fall to confirm the presence or absence of water in a permanently shadowed crater at the Moon's SouthPole ...
... Dr. Knox is currently a member of the Planck collaboration and SouthPole collaboration, the former of which is arguably the most important experiment in cosmology today. ...
... At -25 degrees Celsius (-13 degrees Fahrenheit), a summer's day at the SouthPole, it would take 2,000 atmospheres (30,000 pounds per square inch) to make a snowball. ...
... This change can be detected, over a century or two, in several ways: stars moving closer to or farther from the poles, stars rising farther north or south, and stars rising heliacally (just before the Sun) or culminating around sunset later in the year. ...
... the celestial equator and poles to the ecliptic and its poles is complicated by the ... as its poles describe an arc counterclockwise in space, around the poles of the ...