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Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Is Moving: Why It’s Happening And What It Means
Earth’s magnetic north pole has been shifting gradually for centuries due to the movement of molten metals in the planet’s outer core. In the 1990s, magnetic north began to experience an ...
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How Does Earth’s Magnetic Field Work?
At planetary scale, Earth’s magnetic field induces such a current ... paleomagnetic records show that the intensity drops by up to 90 percent in the process of pole-switching. We should all feel ...
What’s Really Behind the Northern Lights? NASA Is About to Find Out
Riding with SpaceX’s Transporter-13 mission, NASA’s EZIE CubeSats will unlock the mysteries of auroral electrojets. These ...
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Mohave County wilderness & geology: Earth’s magnetic poles flip-flop
Have you ever played with a magnet and stuck it in a sandy wash? It will pick up lots of black stuff. Some call it black sand; some might think ...
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Look for the Northern Lights Tonight: Aurora Borealis Has a Season, and It Just Started
Historical data shows that auroras occur more often during the spring and autumn equinox.
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WATCH — The science behind the northern lights
Like bar magnets, Earth has a north magnetic pole and a south magnetic pole. The lines of Earth’s magnetic field point from one pole to the other. When the solar wind approaches Earth ...
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Dancing turtles show how animals use magnetic field as a map
Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...
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Chandrayaan-2 unveils unexpectedly high plasma density in the Moon’s ionosphere
By analyzing radio signals from India’s Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, which continues to operate efficiently and provide valuable ...