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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This third flight would culminate in the Moon landing at the lunar south pole.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2019
• The craft’s planned landing site is near the south pole, where the rover mission will explore the lunar surface.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• For the time being, a lot of these upcoming missions are focused on the lunar south pole, rather than around the equator where the Apollo missions landed.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2024
• With the Chang'e program, which will next turn its attention to the south pole of the Moon, China has established both the seriousness of its intent and validated its technical approach.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024