How to Use north pole in a Sentence

north pole

noun
  • At Saturn’s north pole, a colossal jet stream naturally organizes into a six-sided polygon, big enough to fit two Earths across.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Caused by sunlight-scattering dust in the Martian atmosphere, that unexpected brilliance seems to be planet-wide—save for a region near the world’s north pole.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • These constellations and others are close to Polaris the North Star, shining directly above the Earth’s north pole.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2026
  • There’s always a rapid hurricane, shifting only slightly in position, directly above Saturn’s north pole.
    — Big Think, 15 Apr. 2026
  • For 30 years, scientists — including some scientists who worked on both missions — awaited this data from Cassini to see just what was going on around Saturn’s north pole.
    — Big Think, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Just as Earth has two very different poles — the Antarctic south pole, marked by a massive continent, and the icy north pole, whose ice floats atop the waters of the Arctic ocean — so too does Saturn.
    — Big Think, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And as impressive as its rings may be, the planet also boasts an immense hexagonal vortex almost 30,000 km across at its north pole—so huge Earth could comfortably pass through one of its sides.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Next, sweep your scope southwest to find Mare Nubium (the Sea of Clouds), with Mare Humorum (the Sea of Humours) to its left, relative to the moon's north pole.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Observations of the two solar system gas giants have revealed that Jupiter's north pole hosts a central polar vortex surrounded by eight smaller vortices, while Saturn has a single, strangely hexagonal, massive atmospheric whirlpool over its north pole.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Using the StarryStarryProcess, the team determined that the parent star of TOI 3884 b has groups of starspots concentrated at its north pole, which is tilted toward Earth.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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