equator
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A dusk/dawn SSO orbit follows the earth’s rotation, passing near the poles, crossing the equator about the same time each day.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
High temperatures are nothing new in the west African nation, perched just above the equator.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
"Instead of even spreading, these slow-moving impacts would create a deposit rather than a crater. And they are centered on the equator as predicted from modeling material spun off the primary."
From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026
Kourou's position close to the equator on the South American continent has some launch advantages, but European-built rockets must be shipped thousands of kilometres then reassembled, adding to logistical challenges.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
Where the conventional view had been that lands close to the equator must be uninhabitable, this had turned out to be nonsense.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing equator
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Human Geography - Middle School
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