To make it easier to talk about the Earth and to draw maps of it, scientists and cartographers (another word for mapmakers) divided the Earth into sections calledhemispheres. The prefix 'hemi-' means 'half,' so the word 'hemisphere' means 'half of a sphere.' A sphere is 3D circle li...
Before GPS, star maps were used by early explorers to plot their course in unknown lands and oceans. A close look reveals that it represents the constellations as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. Can you find the Ursa Minor (Little Dipper) with the Polaris (North Star) at its tip? How...
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Satellite-Derived Maps of Snow Cover Frequency for the Northern Hemisphere U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Depth of Snow Cover in the Northern Hemisphere, Arctic Construction and Frost Effects Laboratory, New England Division, ... KF Dewey - 《Journal of Applied Meteorology》 被引量: 440发表: ...