Its orbit will leave just a 400km-wide circle at the pole that is out of sight of its instrument.
Nonetheless, scientists are confident it gives at least a broad record of conditions at the pole some 30, 000 to 70, 000 years ago.
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The altitude, low temperatures and lack of sunlight (at least during the Antarctic winter) make the atmosphere at the pole ideal for star-gazing.
They used a grid displaying all possible hues rolled into a globe, with black at the north pole and white at the south.
Kemp drove a 2-0 fastball, clocked at 95 mph, toward the right-field corner where a security guard stationed at the foul pole tried to catch the ball just behind the wall.
He experienced firsthand the impact of humanity on the environment when under the hole in the ozone layer at the South Pole, the harsh ultraviolet rays from the sun burned his skin and permanently changed the color of his eyes.
And when the Cold War started, the Soviets said they were going to set up a base at the South Pole, so the U.S. rushed there first.
Scientists may not be able to explain the "boiler" at the south pole but they are already talking up the possibility that conditions there could allow for liquid water below the surface - with all the implications that might have.
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Ms. Stapleton spent summers working at the Totem Pole Playhouse near Harrisburg, Pa.
Growing up in Brooklyn, he dreamed of being Shackleton at the South Pole or Darwin on board the Beagle.
Dr Carlstrom and his colleagues propose building an eight-metre-diameter radio telescope at the South Pole to search for such cold spots.
Stapleton spent summers working at the Totem Pole Playhouse near Harrisburg, Pa.
Last October, the U.S. Air Force rescued an American researcher who had suffered a suspected stroke while working at the South Pole.
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Based on Palinkas' studies at the South Pole, the most stable individuals and those with the most stable relationships are middle-aged married couples.
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It has also been tried (albeit that the water in question was frozen) by putting detectors down a hole at the South Pole.
Julian drove into town and bought an electric heater, but under the fifteen-foot ceilings the device was like a spark at the North Pole.
"There was a fault in the overhead network caused by the contacts at the top of the pole coming loose and crashing against each other, " she said.
Nicholas Claus (Paul Giamatti) persuades his resentful and estranged older brother, Fred (Vince Vaughn), a motormouthed Chicago repo man, to pay him a visit at the North Pole.
But a report last year that an expedition had found open water at the North Pole was dismissed as largely meaningless by critics who said it happened every year.
One plan under consideration calls for tractor traverses from the base on the coast at McMurdo to the pole via the newly established Leverett Glacier route to transport the cable.
Tackling the real North Pole is estimated to take at least four times as long as the magnetic pole, which, at present, is considerably further south.
Scott had the misfortune to launch his final assault on the Pole at just when the Antarctic temperatures took an unlikely plunge.
The average finish of the pole winner at the last five Daytona 500s is 16th.
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Danica Patrick, the first woman to win the pole position at the Daytona 500, led three times, including five laps under green -- also becoming the first woman to lead a lap at the race not under a yellow flag caution.
Ed Carpenter -- the stepson of Tony George, the founder of the IndyCar racing series -- sat in the advantageous pole position at the front of the field at the start of the race.
Every step of her own maturation -- from the time she danced with a pole at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, to her drastic haircut in 2012 -- has made headlines.
McLaren driver Kimi Raikkonen starts Sunday's European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring on pole position and is just three points adrift of Ferrari's world champion Michael Schumacher.
According to Albert "Buz" McKim of the Nascar Hall of Fame, the pole winner at Daytona has won the race only 17% of the time.
Microsoft has been almost literally the main tent pole at CES since it introduced the XBox there in 2001.
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