The next mission to encounter Jupiter, the Ulysses solar probe, performed a flyby maneuver to attain a polar orbit around the Sun.

A polar orbit is one in which a satellite passes above or nearly above both poles of the body being orbited (usually a planet such as the Earth, but possibly another body such as the Sun) on each revolution.

The first part consisted of a five hour elliptical polar orbit with a periapsis of about 400 km at 13 degrees south latitude and an apoapsis of 8300 km.

Launched on 9 November 2005 by a Russian Soyuz Fregat rocket procured through Starsem, it successfully assumed a polar orbit around Venus on 11 April 2006.

Population and distribution The polar bear is found in the Arctic Circle and adjacent land masses as far south as Newfoundland Island.

This was like my polar apprenticeship.

The more polar solutes dissolve preferentially in the more polar solvent, and the less polar solutes in the less polar solvent.

Steve Reich Sonny Rollins winners of the Polar Music Prize for 2007 Press release of Polar Prize announcement

I'm usually introduced as a polar explorer.

Szavanna introduces Ben Saunders, a polar explorer.

I love Fist of the North Star!

A Sun synchronous orbit (sometimes called a heliosynchronous orbit) is a geocentric orbit which combines altitude and inclination in such a way that an object on that orbit will appear to orbit in the same position, from the perspective of the Sun, during its orbit around the Earth.

A polar ice cap is a high latitude region of a planet or natural satellite that is covered in ice.

See also Atmospheric reentry Escape velocity Geostationary (GEO) High Earth orbit (HEO) Highly elliptical orbit (HEO) International Space Station Medium Earth orbit (MEO) List of orbits Satellite phone Specific orbital energy examples Suborbital spaceflight Notes References

The white fox lives in the Arctic.

The Earth's polar circumference is 39.94 Mm.

We learn about its orbit, the period of its orbit and so on.

For testing purposes, satellites in low earth orbit have been destroyed by ballistic missiles launched from earth.

A polar bear swimming in the Arctic, by Paul Nicklen.

Most of Alaska is subarctic or polar.

It has equatorial and polar radii of and , respectively.

Greenland remains. Twenty eight years ago, this is what the polar ice cap the North Polar ice cap looked like at the end of the summer, at the fall equinox.

Sirius has an elliptical orbit.

For example, see the isotopes of bismuth.

It's pure white, but it's not a polar bear.

Only 10 of the 32 point groups are polar.

Shape Most bird eggs have an oval shape, with one end rounded (the aerus) and the other more pointed (the taglion).

Within the vortex, the cold polar air becomes increasingly cold with neither warmer air from lower latitudes nor energy from the sun during the polar night.

We call this the orbiting mode.

This is a picture here taken from orbit.

As it arrived, the spacecraft did not go into orbit around the asteroid, but remained in a station keeping heliocentric orbit close by.

First International Polar Year, an international scientific program, begins.

The star at the end of the dipper handle is Polaris, the North Star.

The position of the Arctic Circle is not fixed.

At the shorter extreme, Encke's Comet has an orbit that does not reach the orbit of Jupiter, and is known as an Encke type comet.

Another hypothesis suggests that its orbit may be evidence for a large planet beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Climate Owing to its location north of the Arctic Circle, Barrow's climate is cold and dry, classified as a polar climate (Köppen ET ).

Its orbit around the planet was highly eccentric ( e 0.9986).

Polaris ( UMi, Ursae Minoris, Alpha Ursae Minoris, commonly North Star, Northern Star or Pole Star, also Lodestar, sometimes Guiding Star) is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor, and the 45th brightest star in the night sky.

It has a fairly substantial number of asteroids between the orbit of the Earth out through to the orbit of Jupiter.

Time in orbit Ground controllers did not know if a stable orbit had been achieved until 25 minutes after launch.

In the Solar System, the inclination of the orbit of a planet is defined as the angle between the plane of the orbit of the planet and the ecliptic.

And that's where I became truly obsessed with this polar realm.

In deuterostomes, the early divisions occur parallel or perpendicular to the polar axis.

It was successfully deployed on orbit 64.