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Why are geo - stationary satellites not useful for studies of polar regions ?

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(i) Geo- stationary have orbit parallel to the equator and hence the observation of polar regions is not carried out properly.
(ii) For this purpose , elliptical medium earth orbits passing over polar regions are used .
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