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adj. - Arctic.

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  • The morning sun gleaming down on the north-polar cap transformed the ice mass into a brilliant giant jewel of blinding beauty.
  • The two north-polar strips have been mosaicked to show the western rim of Seares crater.
  • Thus it is that the same species are now found on the summits of the mountains of temperate Europe and America, and in the barren north-polar regions.
  • -- New, three-dimensional imaging of Martian north-polar ice layers by a radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is consistent with theoretical models of...
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