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The Moon Will Soon Get Its First-Ever Flapping Flag, Thanks To Chinese School Students
When the USA first sent astronauts to the Moon on Apollo 11, they wanted to plant an American flag on the surface. The ...
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Scientists Explain That The North and South Pole Are Moving, And One Day A Pole Reversal May Be In The Cards
Everyone knows about the Earth’s poles: north and south. One is where the penguins live, the other one is where Santa Claus makes all our presents. But have you ever spared a moment to wonder ...
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Boric reaches South Pole
The first time that a Chilean president arrives at the South Pole“ proves ”Chile's Antarctic vocation,“ Boric also argued. ”From here everything is north. There are only 12 flags flying ...
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China plans to plant a waving flag on the moon in 2026. Here's how
China plans to launch its Chang'e 7 lunar lander to find traces of water ice at the moon's south pole around 2026. If successful, the deployed flag will be the first to actually flutter on the ...
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What was the Race to the South Pole?
Finally, on the 17th January 1912, we arrived at the South Pole. FATIMA: So you were the first to get there! ROBERT SCOTT: Well, no. We saw the Norwegian flag flying and realised that Amundsen had ...
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A Frigid First: Chile’s President Visits South Pole to Bolster Antarctic Claims
By Eve Sampson Chile’s president visited the South Pole on Friday in a bid to fortify ... But more than a century after explorers raced to plant flags in the frigid polar desert, countries ...