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Are the Earth’s Magnetic Poles About to Swap Places? – Gizmodo Australia
Deep inside the Earth, liquid iron is flowing and generating the Earth’s magnetic field, which protects our atmosphere and satellites against harmful radiation from the Sun. This field changes over time, and also behaves differently in different parts of the …
Deep inside the Earth, liquid iron is flowing and generating the Earths magnetic field, which protects our atmosphere and satellites against harmful radiation from the Sun. This field changes over time, and also behaves differently in different parts of the world. The field can even change polarity completely, with the magnetic north and south poles switching places. This is called a reversal and last happened 780,000 years ago.
Between South America and southern Africa, there is an enigmatic m…
