How to Use north pole in a Sentence

north pole

noun
  • Mars once had a magnetic field, rivers, lakes and an ocean on its north pole.
    — Ledyard King, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The light is believed to be the glow from a bolt of lightning near the planet's north pole.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
  • Eight of the largest have been spotted at the planet’s north pole and five at the southern one.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Shouldn't the north pole of the Earth's magnet be at the North Pole?
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • Some features come and go, like a large storm by the north pole spotted by Hubble last year.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Among Juno's greatest hits are the first close-up images of Jupiter's north pole.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Overall, nine cyclones were spotted over Jupiter’s north pole and six over the south pole.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The snapshot was taken near the north pole of Mars, which is an area known to be covered in ice.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Cassini found evidence of this at the north pole early in the mission.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Bands of ice and sand at Mars’ north pole reveal an ancient climate that swung between warm and cold.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2019
  • Alexander said that in a summer in Ohio, the north pole is pointing towards the sun and the south pole is tipped away.
    — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2018
  • The researchers also noted that most of Titan’s lakes circle its north pole.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2019
  • There’s a hexagonal storm on the north pole of Saturn, a geometric shape.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • This means that during Saturn’s northern summer, its north pole is tipped toward the sun.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Above Saturn’s north pole, clouds swirl in a distinct and stunning hexagonal shape.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2018
  • The scientists found that the north pole hosted eight cyclones forming an octagon around a central storm.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Juno is also equipped with infrared sensors that can capture a three-dimensional view of the storms around the north pole.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 21 May 2018
  • True north is the straight-line direction toward the geographic north pole of the Earth.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • This false-color image gives an up-close view of the massive hurricane that sits at Saturn's north pole.
    — Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Unlike the familiar ice found in your freezer or at the north pole, superionic ice is black and hot.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Bring the land of the Claus’s to your bedroom with a quirky north pole theme like this look from the Company Store.
    — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 15 Nov. 2022
  • But in recent years, our north pole has been inching closer and closer to Siberia at a surprisingly rapid pace.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2022
  • At the time, the planet and its many moons were at southern summer solstice, with their south poles fully lit and their north poles shrouded in darkness.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
  • It is located very close to the celestial north pole, which is the point around which the stars in the northern hemisphere appear to rotate.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The bizarre, six-sided structure on the round planet's north pole caused quite the stir, because straight lines and polygons are not so common in nature.
    — Ailsa Harvey, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Lakes around Titan’s north pole glint in the sunlight in this mosaic of Cassini images.
    — Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2015
  • The summer heat will be combined with the most intense sunshine of the year as the Earth's north pole is at its maximum tilt toward the sun.
    — Derek Van Dam, CNN, 18 June 2020
  • Layers of ice buried a mile beneath the planet's north pole were discovered in May 2019.
    — Fox News, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Saturn, the gas giant next door to Jupiter, wears a hexagonal shape on its north pole — but the geometry is all the work of a single storm.
    — National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2018
  • These images of Jupiter show x-ray emission from the aurora at the north pole of the planet, a feature unique among the worlds in our solar system.
    — Belinda J. Wilkes, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2019

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