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- An extreme example is the pole star which has a declination near to +90°, so is circumpolar as seen from anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere except very close to the equator.
- These particles drift in the direction opposite to the rotation of the planet and preferentially impact areas on the leading hemisphere close to the equator.
- The city’s location on the edge of the Dahomey Gap makes it much drier than would be expected so close to the equator, although it is less dry than Accra or Lomé.
- Owing to its location in the Dahomey Gap, Lomé has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification "Aw") despite its latitude close to the equator.
- Despite being located close to the equator, Bujumbura is not as hot as one might expect, due to its altitude.
- The smallest inclination that a satellite can be launched into is that of the launch site's latitude, so launching the satellite from close to the equator limits the amount of inclination change needed later.
- The surface velocity decreases with the cosine of the geographic latitude, so space launch facilities are often located as close to the equator as feasible, e.g.
- The San Marco project since 1967 was focused on the launching of scientific satellites by Scout rockets from a mobile rigid platform located close to the equator.
- Dark spots may dissipate when they migrate too close to the equator, or possibly through some other unknown mechanisms.
- As Nairobi is situated close to the equator, the differences between the seasons are minimal.
- It is also a dry air mass formed over land in an area close to the equator.
- Phosphate mining has removed most of the vegetation and tree coverage that Nauru had, leaving the land and the people vulnerable to intense heat on an island so close to the Equator.
- This is much smaller than the scale inaccuracy, except very close to the equator.
- Messier 107 or M107, also known as NGC 6171, is a very loose globular cluster in a very mildly southern part of the sky close to the equator in Ophiuchus, and is the last such object in the Messier Catalogue.
- Each event was visible from points in the northern hemisphere or close to the equator; people in e.g.
- Despite the fact that the city is located close to the equator, due to its high altitude, Pasto's average high temperatures typically range only between [...] while average low temperatures are usually between [...].
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