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NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field:
The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) – likened by NASA to a 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field, or a kind of 'pothole in space' – generally doesn't affect life on Earth, but the same can't be said for orbital spacecraft (including the International Space Station), which pass directly through the anomaly as they loop around the planet at low-Earth orbit altitudes.
[...] The primary source is considered to be a swirling ocean of molten iron inside Earth's outer core, thousands of kilometres below the ground. The movement of that mass generates electrical currents that create Earth's magnetic field, but not necessarily uniformly, it seems.
A huge reservoir of dense rock called the African Large Low Shear Velocity Province, located about 2,900 kilometres (1,800 miles) below the African continent, disturbs the field's generation, resulting in the dramatic weakening effect – which is aided by the tilt of the planet's magnetic axis.
"The observed SAA can be also interpreted as a consequence of weakening dominance of the dipole field in the region," says NASA Goddard geophysicist and mathematician Weijia Kuang.
"More specifically, a localised field with reversed polarity grows strongly in the SAA region, thus making the field intensity very weak, weaker than that of the surrounding regions."
[...] one study led by NASA heliophysicist Ashley Greeley in 2016 revealed the SAA is drifting slowly in a north-westerly direction.
It's not just moving, however. Even more remarkably, the phenomenon seems to be in the process of splitting in two, with researchers this year discovering that the SAA appears to be dividing into two distinct cells, each representing a separate centre of minimum magnetic intensity within the greater anomaly.
Journal Reference:
A. D. Jones, S. G. Kanekal, D. N. Baker, et al. SAMPEX observations of the South Atlantic anomaly secular drift during solar cycles 22–24, Space Weather (DOI: 10.1002/2016SW001525)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @06:37PM (1 child)
The magnetic pole shifts are coming, once they start it is going to get wild.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @10:25PM
It makes your hair yellow and stick out in front, and turns your skin orange... Waiddasecond...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @06:46PM (3 children)
the vast growing anomaly is just part of the vast right wing conspiracy
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @07:03PM (1 child)
What could humans have done to cause this? Let's get Greta T. on the phone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @07:47PM
HAARP
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday August 21 2020, @07:06AM
No, no, no....it must be a Left Wing Conspiracy, because.... Science!
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Thursday August 20 2020, @08:48PM (9 children)
It is a normal fluctuation that we were previously unaware of.
Hope nobody blames Africa
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @08:59PM
Well, not Africa, per se. It's all Nelson Mandela's fault. This didn't happen before he ended apartheid, now did it? And, it didn't happen before Israel. It didn't happen before Columbus, either! There ya go - blame it all on Columbus, ben Gurion, and Mandela!
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Thursday August 20 2020, @09:47PM (5 children)
You're wrong! I read on some forum on the internet, this is the mole men coming to the surface to make war. It is splitting in two so the mole men armies can make a pincer move when they attack the surface.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday August 20 2020, @11:02PM (4 children)
Fool! Mole men? Be serious! It is obviously the crab people causing this in preparation of their invasion. Or perhaps the Seatopians have reanimated Megalon...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 20 2020, @11:18PM (3 children)
You've forgotten the hollow earth theory? And, the companion theory that the Nazis just ran and hid inside the earth? (Their first choice was the 'dark side of the moon', but their rockets weren't ready for the trip.)
Anyway, it's likely an alliance between the mole men, the crabby creatures, AND the Nazis.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @11:27PM (1 child)
The hollow earth isn't so much a theory, as a fact recorded in many ancient maps. Look up the Lazeria map collection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wbn_1oHWTc [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @05:51AM
The above is two hours of NSFW. It will put you to sleep and get you in trouble with the boss. Great for insomnia though.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday August 21 2020, @07:13AM
Well the Vril were running the Nazi party and some of them went to the dark side of the moon, while Hitler, Steve Jobs, Genghis Khan, Margaret Thatcher and many others retreated to the hollow earth.
Haven't you seen the documentaries?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_IndUbcxc [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URTPgGEhmNM [youtube.com]
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @10:42PM
This anomaly is well known in the world of space stuff, so it goes. Apparently your radiation hardened on board computer tends to crash when passing over it and allowances must be made. I was talking to this guy in the pub once.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @06:35AM
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Thursday August 20 2020, @09:13PM (2 children)
There's a vast right-hand rule conspiracy involving magnetic fields. Find ur nearest EE and give him the password "Fleming" and we'll let you in on the secret conspiracy we're "generating".
Get it, "Generating" ahem?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @11:18PM (1 child)
Has it merged with the 5G conspiracy yet? The Grand Unified Conspiracy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @06:38AM