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An X8.2-class solar flare
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Solar Flares Increase Radiation Risk on Commercial Aircraft

by E. Underwood 18 April 201919 September 2022

A new study quantifies how space weather may affect polar transcontinental flight.

Unusual clouds over South Georgia Island
Posted inEditors' Vox

Atmospheric Gravity Wave Science in the Polar Regions

by T. Moffat-Griffin, M. Taylor, T. Nakamura, D. Murphy, J. V. Bageston and G. Jee 17 April 201929 March 2022

A joint special issue explores the potential of collaboration to help understand atmospheric gravity waves in the Polar Regions and their effect on global circulation.

A sign near the north entrance to the village of Laschamps shows the correct spelling of the name.
Posted inOpinions

Changing Name for Earth’s Changing Poles

by J. Kornprobst and J.-F. Lénat 13 March 201927 January 2023

The name of one geomagnetic pole reversal, the Laschamps excursion, somehow lost its s as it wandered through the scientific literature. It’s time to set the record straight.

Sunset on Mount Everest
Posted inScience Updates

Tracking Regional Climate Change from Pole to Pole

by D. Joswiak, M. E. Guelld Joswiak and T. Yao 12 March 201931 January 2022

8th Third Pole Environment Workshop; Gothenburg, Sweden, 24–26 September 2018

A view of Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano erupting and flowing into the ocean
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Magnetic Anomalies on the Pacific Plate Reveal True Polar Wander

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 11 March 201920 December 2021

A new study rebuffs the standard approach to paleomagnetism and offers an updated methodology and new locations of paleomagnetic poles.

Mars Express north polar plains
Posted inScience Updates

Updates on Understanding Mars’s Recent and Present-Day Climate

by Serina Diniega, I. Smith and A. Bramson 23 January 20198 August 2022

Mars Workshop on Amazonian and Present-day Climate; Lakewood, Colorado, 18–22 June 2018

Posted inScience Updates

Remote Sensing Leads to Better Understanding of Polar Regions

by G. Grosse and B. Jones 28 December 20187 February 2023

Fifteenth International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium; Potsdam, Germany, 10–14 September 2018

Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Characterization of the Mesospheric Polar Vortices

by William J. Randel 2 October 201816 March 2023

Polar vortices play a central role in coupling the atmosphere from the ground to the middle atmosphere. New satellite diagnostics describe mesospheric polar vortices and coupling to lower altitudes.

Researchers look at satellite imaging for evidence of high-altitude “wind walls” near Earth’s magnetic poles
Posted inResearch Spotlights

High-Altitude “Wind Walls” Discovered near Magnetic Poles

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 14 August 201814 February 2022

Satellite imaging reveals two narrow channels of extreme winds surrounded by gentle opposing flow 140–250 kilometers above sea level.

Researchers find evidence of regional deposition in Mars’s south polar deposits
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Evidence of Regional Deposition in Mars’s South Polar Deposits

by Terri Cook 13 August 20188 August 2022

Shallow Radar correlation of discrete units in one of the Red Planet’s largest ice reservoirs suggests that its material was emplaced as a single, regional deposit.

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