Explore the Lumpy, Bumpy Martian North Pole in This 3D Video

You’ve probably never lent Mars’s northern pole a great deal of thought, but you can explore it in wonderful 3D glory in this ESA video.

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Canada’s About to Claim the North Pole as Its Own

Canada's About to Claim the North Pole as Its Own

Have you spent the past decade believing that Canada is nothing more than our friendly, innocuous neighbor to the north? Good—that’s what they wanted you to think. In reality, Canada has given the past 10 years of its life and $200 million dollars in taxpayer money to file the ultimate claim: over 1 million square miles of Arctic seafloor that, yes, includes the North Pole.

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Stunning night images of a nuclear ice breaker in the middle of nowhere

Stunning night images of a nuclear ice breaker in the middle of nowhere

Sergey Dolya took some incredible photos in an expedition to the North Pole on board a Russian Arktika-class nuclear ice breaker. In the words of Buzz Aldrin, "Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolation." By the way, did you know that you can get a cabin on board these and other industrial ships?

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Watch an Insanely Relaxing Flight Across the Arctic Ice Plains, by NASA

What you see here is some of the best footage shot from the front and back mounted cameras on one of the P-3B aircraft that runs NASA’s IceBridge missions. These vistas are from the spring mission over Greenland and the Arctic, but NASA’s going back for more this fall.

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IMPORTANT NORTH POLE UPDATE: It’s Frozen Again

IMPORTANT NORTH POLE UPDATE: It's Frozen Again

Brace yourself ladies and gentlemen for some breaking somewhat-climate-change-related news coming out of the Arctic. The North Pole that just one week ago looked like a lake on the top of planet Earth, no longer looks like a lake. It’s frozen now, just like it usually is.

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The North Pole Is Now a Lake

The North Pole Is Now a Lake

If you think these images from the North Pole look more like a lake than the snow-covered expanse you’d expect, that because it is is—the North Pole has melted.

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