Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.

Each image encompasses an area of about 190×140 km ... Figure 1: A quantitative illumination map of the Moon's north pole. Our quantitative illumination map also identifies permanently shadowed ...

The SMART-1 north pole map, covering an area of about 800 by 600 km, shows geographical locations of some craters of interest. Peary is a large impact crater closest to the north pole. At this ...

The SMART-1 north pole map, covering an area of about 800 by 600 km, shows geographical locations of some craters of interest. Peary is a large impact crater closest to the north pole. At this ...

A new high-resolution map of the moon's north pole shows a view of the surface that ... divots and shadows across an area more than one-quarter that of the United States. If you were to print ...

It might sound like something out of a Hollywood disaster movie, but the world's magnetic northern pole has changed. The magnetic north pole is the point that compasses point to as north and is ...

The Martian north pole is part of a vast sedimentary plain built up over more than three billion years from ice erosion deposits, dust, volcanic lava and other sundry materials. - AFP Posted 16 ...

And everyone was exploring the area, trying to find the Northwest ... which was an island in the Arctic Circle. Although the map is called North Pole, it's not really a map of the North Pole ...

Updates to this system typically happen every five years, but the relatively rapid motion of the North Pole has necessitated an accelerated schedule for this update—which then ended up delayed ...