... that, too--it is as if the Earth had a small (but oh so powerful!) bar magnet in its center: the lines fan out from the region near the south magnetic pole, reach their greatest distances above the equator, then converge again near the north magnetic pole ...
... Mars also has north and southpoles, and its rotation axis is inclined to the ecliptic by about as much as the Earth's rotation axis, turning around it in a little more than 24 hours. ...
... Take for example the case of a low altitude satellite whose orbit plane contains the axis of the Earth (i.e. it passes right above the north and southpoles). ...
... Mars also has north and southpoles, and its rotation axis is inclined to the ecliptic by about as much as the Earth's rotation axis, turning around it in a little more than 24 hours. ...
... 13 years, and examined the sky from the north celestial pole to 50њ south declination, down to magnitude 16-17, sometimes even ... Only a planet in an almost polar orbit and situated near the south celestial pole could have escaped his detection. ...
... This view of Uranus was acquired by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and reveals a pair of bright clouds in the planet's southern hemisphere, and a high altitude haze that forms a "cap" above the planet's southpole. ...