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Recent Examples of equatorBoth the Curiosity and Pathfinder rovers (respectively located above and below equator) have documented the atmospheric events.—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2025 As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the incoming magnetic orientation, French said.—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2025 They were first spotted back in 1997 by NASA's Pathfinder mission from just north of Mars' equator.—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025 Saturn’s other moons orbit over its equator, so the material from this one would likely have wound up in a similar configuration as well.—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for equator
Baker cuts to conflicted close-ups of Igor, underscoring his pangs of conscience on the periphery of the plot.
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A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
The arcane pockets of China’s periphery where the Yi and other minorities live are typically China’s poorest regions, far from the gleaming skyscrapers and bustling ports of Shanghai and Shenzhen.
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