Showing posts with label earth's magnetic field. Show all posts
Showing posts with label earth's magnetic field. Show all posts
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Watch The Northern Lights Live On The Web

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A still image of what the aurora show will look like through the Slooh Space Camera during the live webcast. CREDIT: Slooh Space Camera Ligh...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Fast Flip Of Earth's Poles

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Possible evidence for the rapid reversal was in rocks formed from lava flows in Nevada's Sheep Creek Range. Credit: Scott Bogue From New...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Tsunamis Leave Ionosphere All Shook Up

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Photo: Researchers hope measuring atmospheric waves will improve early warning of big tsunamis such as the one generated by a February eart...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

Second Super-Fast Flip Of Earth's Poles Found

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On the flip, in record time (Image: G.Glatzmaier/Los Alamos National Laboratory/P.Roberts/UCLA/SPL) From The New Scientist: SOME 16 million ...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Earth Raised Up Its Magnetic Shield Early, Protecting Water And Emerging Life

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From Discover Magazine: Here we are drinking coffee and tweeting and otherwise going about our lives, generally not giving much thought to t...

Shields Down! Earth's Mag Field May Drop In A Flash

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There'll be little warning if Earth's magnetic field flips (Image: NASA/SPL) From New Scientist: EVEN if we knew precise details of ...
Monday, December 28, 2009

As The World Churns: Earth's Liquid Outer Core Is Slowly 'Stirred' In A Series Of Decades-Long Waves

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By combining measurements of Earth's magnetic field from stations on land and ships at sea with satellite data, scientists were able to ...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux

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Blue lines show Earth's northern magnetic field and the magnetic north pole in an artist's rendering. Picture courtesy Stefan Maus, ...
Sunday, October 4, 2009

Ancient Earth's Magnetic Field Was Structured Like Today's Two-pole Model

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The well-exposed layering of basalt flows in formations near Lake Superior is aiding scientific understanding of the geomagnetic field in an...
Saturday, October 3, 2009

The Shining: What We Still Have To Learn About The Northern Lights.

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A typical Alaskan sky, photographed from Eielson Air Force Base, 25 miles southeast of Fairbanks, displays auroral structures and motions th...
Friday, July 24, 2009

Auroras In Northern And Southern Hemispheres Are Not Identical

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Asymmetric aurora. (Credit: Polar VIS Earth (J. B. Sigwarth) and IMAGE WIC (S. B. Mende)) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (July 24, 2009) —...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Earth’s Magnetic Field Has Massive Breach - Scientists Baffled

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(Click To Enlarge) Watts Up With That: I know. This sounds like a plot of a 1950’s scifi movie. But it is real. From my view, our localized ...

Leaks Found In Earth's Protective Magnetic FieldI

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A close-up of a solar flare taken with the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft in Sept. 2005. Credit: NASA From Live S...
Friday, September 26, 2008

Why Earth's Magnetic Field Flip-Flops

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Earth's magnetic field may actually be two fields from separate sources. Credit: Dreamstime From Live Science: Every so often, Earth...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Changes In the Earth's Magnetic Field

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The innermost part of the earth. The outer core extends from 2500 to 3500 miles below the earth's surface and is liquid metal. The inne...