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floofloof@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth's magnetic field

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Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth's magnetic field

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floofloof@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth's magnetic field over the South Atlantic—known as the South Atlantic Anomaly—has expanded by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/675431

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    1 day ago

    I’d heard that too, but it seems to be incorrect

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal#Observing_past_fields

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