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• Periareion
  ...ricity of 0.017, where as Mars' eccentricity is 0.093.) The Martian South Pole is pointing towards the Sun at periapsis. ...rth polar cap gets a frosting of carbon dioxide ice in its winter, but the south polar ice caps build up a thick layer of CO2 ice each winter.
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• Mars Express
  [[Image:MARSIS.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A MARSIS map of Mars' south pole ice deposits.]] * Location of an area of water ice near the north pole using HRSC (2005)
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• Lakes on Mars
  == Underground Lakes Near the South Pole == ...ssible lakes of liquid water (or brine) under the polar cap near the South Pole. It was thought that these were kept liquid by geothermal heat. However,
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• Sublimation landscapes on Mars
  ...rial has been scooped out. Usually scalloped depressions have a steeper pole-facing wall and a gentle equator facing slope.<ref>Lefort, A.; Russell, P. ...jpg |thumb|200px|center|Scalloped terrain The steep wall faces the north pole. Studies from orbit have shown the presence of ice in these formations.
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• Atmospheric loss
  ...le which gets colder than the North Pole). See [[Periareion]]. The South Pole has buried CO2 which does not sublimate each year. <ref>https://agupubs.on
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• Coronal Mass Ejections
  ...rora Borialis]] (over the North Pole) and Aurora Australis (over the South Pole). The light is emitted in the upper polar [[atmosphere]], in the various la
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• Ares Vallis
  ...annels (Surius, Dzigai, and Palacopus Valles) draining down from the south pole. If real, the full length of this drainage system would be over 8000&nbsp;k
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• Carbon dioxide
  ...Ice Glaciers at the South Pole of Mars" suggests that the CO2 at the South Pole is much deeper than previously thought, being over 1 km thick in basins. <r
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• Super Greenhouse Gases
  ...tep in terraforming, useful in the initial goal of destabilizing the South Pole CO2 ice cap. ...ould destabilize the southern carbon dioxide ice cap. Note that the South Pole is 1 to 3 km above the average height of the planet, and is far from the eq
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• Geography of Mars
  ==North and South== ...lanet is rough with great numbers of craters (indicating an old age). The south is also much higher in altitude (between 1-3 km higher). The boundary betw
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• Luna-Mars Trade
  ...prYEOL7Hfs</ref> have discussed the creation of a mining base on the south pole of the moon to mine the volatile ices found there to produce either [[metha
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• Mare Boreum quadrangle
  Mare Boreum is the sector roughly covering the north pole of Mars. ...ref> An alternative view is that it was made by winds coming off the cold pole.<ref>Howard, A. 2000. The role of eolian processes in forming surface fea
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• Crew 192
  ...ine. He is pursuing his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida. His research areas of interest include life support equipment, hig ...pace Studies Program with International Space University and University of South Australia.
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• Crew 193 - Gold Crew
  ...ount Everest, the 7 Summits and ski to both the Geographic South and North Pole (The Explorer’s Grand Slam). He reached the summit of Mount Everest at 9: ...highest mountain on every continent, the 7 summits, and skiing to both the South and North Poles.
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• Mariner 7
  ...rogram so that Mariner 7 could take additional images of the Martian south pole.<ref>https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mariner-7/</ref> Although Mariner 7 ...t of the Earth at 100000 to 115 000 ft) above sea level on the Earth. The south polar cap was found to be made up of mostly frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice)
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• Magnetosphere
  ...ake a spiral path, until they hit the Earth's atmosphere over the north or south polar regions, forming the aurorae. However, Eskimo are not constantly dyi ...the country and at the north, which is much closer to the Earth's magnetic pole. They found no difference between the cosmic ray doses. Finally, scientis
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• Mare Australe quadrangle
  </gallery>Mare Australe is the south pole of Mars. The region around the South Pole in the Mare Australe quadrangle is chuck full of unusual features that are
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• Water
  ...ide ice.<ref>European Space Agency. March 17, 2004. Water at Martian south pole. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Water_a In 2005, [[Mars Express]] located an area of solid water ice near the north pole.
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• Atmosphere
  ...rising air from the south move high into the atmosphere, and settles from south 10 degrees latitude, to 45 degrees north. A wide belt of hazy clouds can f ...cover the Martian poles. NPH is the north polar hood, where as SPH is the south polar hood.
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• Chaotic Terrain
  *On Luna, the largest impact crater is the South Pole-Aitken basin. Approximately opposite it are large lunar maria, and a conce
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• Mars
  ...a of Earth. The Martian [[Atmosphere]] is almost unique in that the South Pole gets so cold in winter that the main atmospheric constituent will freeze ou ...res range widely from as little as 140° K (-133° C, -207° F) at the winter pole to almost 300° K (27° C, 80° F) on the dayside during summer.
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• Crew 187 EVA Reports
  ...rew left the airlock at 10:35 and headed south in 4 ATVs, upon finding the pole 1101 trough Cow Dung road, after about half an hour of traverse, we proceed ...and camera) was lost, so a search formation was done, and the crew headed south, being able to find the device, and resuming the walk back north. The walk
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• Interplanetary commerce
  ...Fd8OUrOYo</ref> would be able to compete against fuel mined from the south pole of Luna, reducing the cost and improving the stability of supply of fuel to
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• Crew 202
  ...ton, where she designed robotic traverses and geological maps at the south pole far side of the Moon.
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• Periodic climate changes on Mars
  ...xide ice tend to migrate during a Martian year from the North Pole, to the South (and back again) each year. This puts more CO2 and water vapour in the atm ...latitude bands in the mid-latitudes: 30-60 degrees North and 30-60 degrees South latitudes.
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• Terra Sirenum
  ...b|300px|right|MOLA map showing boundaries of Terra Sirenum near the south pole and other regions]]
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• Eridania quadrangle
  ...ess: Tucson, 1992.</ref> The Eridania quadrangle lies between 30° and 65° south latitude and 180° and 240° west longitude (180-120 E). Most of the class ...h magnetic pole of one pointing up from the surface and the north magnetic pole of the next pointing down.<ref>ISBN|978-0-521-82956-4</ref> When similar st
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• Noachis quadrangle
  The Noachis quadrangle covers the area from 30° to 65° south latitude and 300° to 360° west longitude (60-0 E). It lies between Argy ...dust when the climate was different due to changes in the tilt of the Mars pole.<ref>doi=10.1038/nature02114 |pmid=14685228 |title=Recent ice ages on Mars
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• Mariner 4
  ...so bright (second only to Sirius) and that it was near the south ecliptic pole.<ref>Glasstone, S. 1968. The Book of Mars. NASA. Washington D.C.</ref>
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• Geological processes that have shaped Mars: Why Mars looks like it does
  ...at the top of the depression contains pure ice. This wall faces the south pole. <ref>Supplementary Materials Exposed subsurface ice sheets in the Martian ...190-MC-30-MareAustraleRegion-19980605.jpg |right|thumb|px| Region of South Pole with ice cap Southern ice cap is much smaller than the North’s.]]
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• Phaethontis quadrangle
  The Phaethontis quadrangle lies between 30° and 65 ° south latitude and 120° and 180 ° west longitude (240-180 E). This latitude ra ...north wall of crater that lies west of the crater Newton (41.3047 degrees south latitude, 192.89 east longitide). Image taken with [[Mars Global Surveyor]
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• What Mars Actually Looks Like!
  ...nd on steep slopes. A high concentration occurs near 40 degrees north and south of the equator. Usually, each gully has an ''alcove'' at its head, a fan- ...scalloped depression displays a gentle equator-facing slope and a steeper pole-facing scarp.<ref>http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_038821_1235</ref> <ref>https:
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• Hellas quadrangle
  The Hellas quadrangle covers the area from 30° to 65° south latitude and 240° to 300° west longitude (120-60 E ). When an asteroid sl ...he same places where glaciers are observed. Water is transported from the south polar area to northern Hellas and falls as precipitation.<ref>Forget, F., e
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• Martian features that are signs of water ice
  ...sily seen as triangular depressions with one steep wall that faces the pole.<ref>https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_074914_1225</ref> These exposed ice sh The sites are at latitudes from about 55 to 58 degrees north and south of the equator, suggesting that there is shallow ground ice under roughly a
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• Iapygia quadrangle
  The Iapygia quadrangle covers the area from 0° to 30° south latitude and from 270° to 315° west longitude (90-45 E). Parts of the reg ...ear 30% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere freezes out and covers the pole that is experiencing winter, so there is a great potential for strong winds
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• Nuclear power
  ...out as the ice cave grows <ref name=":3">Rodwell, Raul Rodriguez '' South Pole Station - Rodwells '', https://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/rodwell/rodw
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• Diacria quadrangle
  ...ic and tectonic features related to the huge volcanoes Olympus Mons to the south and Alba Mons to the east. Much of the tectonic features on Mars are cause ...ern lowland plains of Mars and cover portions of Amazonis Planitia (in the south), Arcadia Planitia (west central), and Vastitas Borealis (in the north). Th
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• Glaciers on Mars
  ...an, G.J. and J.W. Head, III. 2002. Candidate subglacial volcanoes in the south polar region of Mars: morphology, morphometry, and eruption conditions. J.
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• Crew 184 - Journalist Report
  ...edical Officer Sczepaniak and me had the privilege to be in group one. The pole position also helped to clear some problems for the rest of the team. It to ...sion to evacuate for the night of Saturday to an emergency pod a few miles south of the Habitat. Equipped with the most relevant life sustaining technologie
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• HiWish program
  ...jets formed by sublimation beneath translucent slab ice in Mars' seasonal south polar ice cap. Nature: 442(7104):793-6.</ref> <ref>https://mars.nasa.gov/re ...scalloped depression displays a gentle equator-facing slope and a steeper pole-facing scarp.<ref>https://www.uahirise.org/hipod/PSP_001938_2265</ref> <ref
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• Crew 5 - Crew Reports
  ...erstorm passed and the static electricity generation subsided, the weather pole was grounded by connecting it to the metal roof structure using the ATV sta Passing the hab, we continued south, looking for a previously used route to the Mid-Ridge Planitia. After becom
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• Crew 172 - Journalism Reports
  ...hese latitiudes. I mean we’re hardly equatorial, but we’re a ways from the pole.. Maybe the wind currents are strong enough to escape some ice off and carr ...k to his work within the HAB while the rest of the EVA team heading to the South. We parked near “Zubrin’s Head” (A rock face named after Robert Zubri
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