How to Use south pole in a Sentence

south pole

noun
  • India's craft was the first to touch down on the moon's rugged south pole.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • From there, a pair of astronauts will attempt to land on the moon’s south pole.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2022
  • 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
  • Japan will provide the unmanned launch spacecraft and the rover, which will explore the moon’s south pole.
    Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Much is still unknown about the moon’s south pole, the region where the spacecraft landed.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Around 4 billion years ago, a massive meteor struck the south pole of the moon.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The top deck solar array is canted up 30 degrees to catch the low Sun angle near the south pole of the Moon.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The south pole of the Moon is the area where nations are focused for future exploration.
    Mariel Borowitz, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Based on that criteria, Grim says the Martian south pole doesn’t match up.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Jan. 2022
  • That spacecraft, Chang’e 7, will focus on studying the Moon’s south pole.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
  • India landed the first spacecraft near the moon’s south pole in August.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Two of the four will transfer from Orion into the Starship lander, and make their way down to the moon’s south pole.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Artemis will also be the first human-landing mission on the moon’s south pole.
    Fox News, 24 June 2020
  • That’s what new research suggests around the Martian south pole.
    National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • That, in turn, will prepare for the 2025 Artemis III mission, which will land astronauts near the moon’s south pole.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
  • It will be followed by Artemis 3, planned for the following year, which will aim to land humans near the moon’s south pole.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2023
  • In a major, measurable way, far more electrons were shooting out of the south pole of the nuclei, rather than the north.
    Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
  • India’s craft, which will land close to the lunar south pole, includes a lander called Vikram and a small rover called Pragyan.
    Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
  • China is planning uncrewed missions to the moon’s south pole some time this decade.
    Reuters, NBC News, 5 July 2022
  • The telescope would be situated inside a crater at the moon’s north or south pole.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2020
  • An astronaut spending a day at the moon’s north or south pole would see the sun revolve around the horizon, just at its edge.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020

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