Tag: Earth’s magnetic field
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Swarm Reveals Growing Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field
Overview: A Shifting Shield Earth’s magnetic field is a dynamic, protective shield that deflects cosmic radiation and charged particles from the Sun. Using 11 years of precise measurements from the European Space Agency’s Swarm mission, scientists have traced a troubling trend: the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), a region of weakened field strength over the South…
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Carbon Found to Enable Earth’s Inner Core Formation
Carbon: The Hidden Ingredient Behind Earth’s Inner Core A collaborative study by researchers from the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has unveiled a surprising factor in the long-standing question of how Earth’s inner core formed. The team finds that carbon, present in the core, would be essential to the crystallization…
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Earth’s Magnetic Field Collapse: An Eerie Soundscape
Listening to Earth’s Past: A Scientific Soundscape In a striking blend of science and art, researchers have recreated a haunting audio portrait of a distant geomagnetic event—the Laschamp excursion, when Earth’s magnetic field briefly flipped about 41,000 years ago. A collaboration between the Technical University of Denmark and the German Research Center for Geosciences, and…