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Sun's South Pole In Stunning High-Res Solar Orbiter

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space ...
The New York Times

First-Ever Images of Sun’s South Pole Released by European Mission

Visuals from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better images are expected in the years ahead. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Spacecraft ...
Yahoo

First Aviator to Land at South Pole Dies at 102

"I remember we were in the bunk about two or three o'clock in the morning, and somebody came into the barracks and said, 'You're going to South Pole at 0800' or something," said Conrad Shinn in a 1999 ...
The Boston Globe

Conrad ‘Gus’ Shinn, first pilot to land at the South Pole, dies at 102

On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the South Pole for the first time in history. It was nearly 60 degrees below zero.