equatorial

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As we move from Mars's equatorial region toward its northern latitudes, we encounter Coloe Fossae.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025

La Nina is a naturally occurring climate pattern that cools surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

The authors compared their work with imagery of Mars in the equatorial southern highlands, which is heavily cratered but also full of valley networks.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

During La Niña, unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean typically send winter storms on more northerly tracks, leaving the southern U.S. warmer and drier.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024

Originally, of course, people as distinctive as the Pygmies, living in a place as distinctive as the equatorial African rain forest, were surely isolated enough to develop their own language family.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond