How to Use south pole in a Sentence

south pole

noun
  • Yes, the North Pole of the Earth is the south pole of the Earth's magnet.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • India's craft was the first to touch down on the moon's rugged south pole.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Odysseus landed sideways on the south pole of the moon.
    Devika Rao, theweek, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The Artemis-III crewed mission hopes to land on the south pole of the moon’s surface in 2025.
    Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The main image at the top of this article (and the video above) is of the Sun’s south pole.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • This was the first time any country had landed a probe on the south pole.
    Emilien Coquard, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The lander is aiming to touch down 186 miles away from the moon’s south pole.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The mission marks the first landing of any country near the south pole.
    USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The mission would have been the first lunar landing in the south pole region of the moon.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
  • And on Monday, India plans to launch a mission to the moon's south pole.
    Author: Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2019
  • India became the first country to reach the moon’s south pole.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The next stage would be the truly hard part—achieving a soft landing on the Moon’s south pole.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The icebergs and the frozen caps in the north and south poles are melting and sea levels are going to rise.
    Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 31 May 2018
  • From there, a pair of astronauts will attempt to land on the moon’s south pole.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2022
  • That heat is shrinking the ice sheets at the planet’s north and south poles and causing the oceans to expand.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • There may be a lake buried beneath the ice on the south pole of Mars, a new study has suggested.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 30 Sep. 2022
  • It's also believed that the south pole contains more ice than the north pole.
    Fox News, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Japan will provide the unmanned launch spacecraft and the rover, which will explore the moon’s south pole.
    Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Alexander said that in a summer in Ohio, the north pole is pointing towards the sun and the south pole is tipped away.
    Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2018
  • Much is still unknown about the moon’s south pole, the region where the spacecraft landed.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Within a week of landing near the south pole, Odysseus was on the verge of powering down for good.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
  • Around 4 billion years ago, a massive meteor struck the south pole of the moon.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Slated to launch in 2025, the rover’s primary job was to study water ice near the moon’s south pole.
    Thomas Zurbuchen, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The Vikram lander is slated to land on the Moon’s south pole on September 7th.
    Loren Grush, The Verge, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The Red Planet has ice caps on its north and south poles, which grow in winter and melt some in summer.
    Shannon Stirone, Wired, 4 Jan. 2020
  • Both countries are eyeing the lunar south pole, where there is water in the form of ice.
    Christian Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
  • Over the next five years, seven more space missions from the U.S., Russia and China are planned for the south pole area.
    Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 14 July 2019
  • As a follow-up, Chandrayaan-2 was designed to map and study the geology of the moon’s south pole.
    Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The vessel is now scheduled to travel for more than a month in orbit and then land at the moon’s south pole on Aug. 23.
    Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • That big contact patch will be helpful when the LTV is charged with driving in and out of craters in the moon’s south pole, when the tires will encounter some 20 degrees of slope in loose soil.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 12 Aug. 2024

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