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Astronomers Detect Entirely New Type of Plasma Wave Above Jupiter’s North Pole
Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful ...
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Sound of Earth's Flipping Magnetic Field Haunts Again From 780,000 Years Ago
Boldly etched into the flow of solidifying lava across Earth, the Matuyama-Brunhes event is used by geologists as a marker of ...
Whoopsie, Humans Built So Many Dams That We Shifted the North Pole by 3 Feet
The most eye-popping example of dams’ astronomical impact can be seen by analyzing the effects of China’s Three Gorges Dam, ...
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Brunhes-Matuyama Reversal: Listen The Earth's Magnetic Fields Flip 780,000 Years In The Past
The poles can flip over the course of hundreds or thousands of years, and this can happen at random, with intervals ranging anywhere from 10,000 years to 50 million years or more. Around 41,000 years ...
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Humanity Has Dammed So Much Water It's Shifted Earth's Magnetic Poles
Recent shifts in Earth's magnetic field have human fingerprints all over them. While it is normal for our planet's magnetic ...
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Listen to The Sound of The Earth's Magnetic Field Switching Poles 780,000 Years Ago — And It's Eerie
Geological data of the processes shifting magnetic poles within the planet for a large epoch in history was sonified into an ...
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Astronomers Spot Strange Activity Over Jupiter’s North Pole That Could Lead to a Paradigm Shift in Plasma Physics
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected an unusual new variety of plasma phenomenon occurring over Jupiter's north pole.