A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation ...
But from 260 miles above in space, he saw no trace of humanity — just desolation: a seemingly endless view of pure white ice.
The flight is due to take off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on a unique path ... white aurora and associated fragments in the North Pole's Northern Lights that have the ability to disrupt ...
Even astronauts on the International Space Station have not seen the views the "framonauts" are experiencing ...
The first leg of their flight — from Florida to the South Pole — took barely ... Until now, no space traveler had ventured beyond 65 degrees north and south latitude, just shy of the Arctic ...