NORTH POLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North Pole mean? 

• NORTH POLE (noun)
  The noun NORTH POLE has 1 sense:

1. the northernmost point of the Earth's axis

  Familiarity information: NORTH POLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH POLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The northernmost point of the Earth's axis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

pole (one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface)

Derivation:

north-polar (of or relating to the Arctic)

 Context examples 

For this study, researchers focused on a region near the Moon's north pole called Mare Frigoris, or the Cold Sea.

(Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon, NASA)

Shortly after its arrival at Saturn, Cassini found evidence of this phenomenon at Titan’s north pole.

(NASA Team Finds Noxious Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan, NASA)

The largest one is inside a 10-mile-wide (16-kilometer) crater located less than 40 miles (65 kilometers) from the north pole.

(Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate, NASA)

There are three large seas, all located close to the moon's north pole, surrounded by numerous of smaller lakes in the northern hemisphere.

(Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan, NASA)

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on.

(Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System, NASA)

Researchers found that craters become up to 10% shallower near the north pole of Mercury and the south pole of the Moon, but not the north pole of the Moon.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

Because of this extreme tilt, during the planet's summer the Sun shines almost directly onto the north pole and never sets.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)

The magnetic North Pole is currently shifting toward Siberia, forcing the Global Positioning System that underlies modern navigation to update its software sooner than expected.

(Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought, National Science Foundation)

During the flyby, Cassini's cameras and spectrometers will get a high-resolution peek at Dione's north pole at a resolution of only a few feet (or meters).

(Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione, NASA)

Data from Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer and the spacecraft's radio science instrument showed that the high-altitude temperature near the north pole was much colder than that just south of the equator.

(NASA Finds Methane Ice Cloud in Titan's Stratosphere, NASA)