: the part of the earth that lies south of the equator
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Recent Examples on the WebPeople often look to the southern hemisphere to try to predict the coming winter’s flu activity, though what happens north of the equator doesn’t alway match what happened south of it. Helen Branswell, STAT, 11 Sep. 2022 In this hybrid model, the emergence of a dark spot in the star’s southern hemisphere had lowered surrounding temperatures and spat out a bubble of hot gas. Allison Gasparini, Scientific American, 17 June 2022 Apesteguia said never before has such a thyreophoran been dug up anywhere in the southern hemisphere. Reuters, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2022 It's been summertime in Neptune's southern hemisphere since 2005. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022 Using a supercomputer and a machine learning algorithm, researchers have pinpointed the meteorite's origin to the Terra Cimmeria-Sirenum area on the Red Planet's southern hemisphere. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2022 The most recent find, thanks to Juan Canale, lead author of the new paper, is believed to be from a 9,000-pound, 36-foot-long dinosaur and marks the most complete carcharodontosauridae skeleton found in the southern hemisphere. Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2022 In the northern hemisphere, the days will now get shorter and the nights longer, while in the southern hemisphere the days will now get longer and the nights shorter. Jamie Carter, Forbes, 21 June 2022 The researchers found that Mars auroras happen most frequently in the planet’s southern hemisphere. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 May 2022 See More