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Earth's Magnetic North Pole Officially Has A New Position
For centuries, scientists have monitored the gradual movement of the Earth's magnetic poles. The Earth's magnetic north pole is distinct from the geographic North Pole, with the former constantly ...
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The Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Is Moving — Here's What That Means for the Planet
Besides the geographic North Pole — an area that some children worldwide recognize as the home of Santa and all his reindeer — the Earth also has a magnetic North Pole. These magnetic poles ...
Athena lander dies after toppling near the moon's south pole
A day after a live webcast captured a somber-looking mission control room in the minutes surrounding its planned Thursday ...
What a 3.5 billion-year-old meteor crater tells us about the Earth
Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South ...
NASA’s newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...
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SpaceX, NASA to launch 1st mission to study aurora 'electrojets' in Earth's atmosphere
"EZIE is the first mission dedicated exclusively to studying the electrojets," Larry Kepko, an EZIE mission scientist at NASA ...
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Structure of the Earth
Humans do not extract elements from the Earth's core. The movement of magnetic metals in the core causes the poles to move slightly each year. 780,000 years ago, the poles were completely opposite ...
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Scientists discover Earth’s oldest meteorite crater, changing our planet’s history
Researchers from Curtin University have uncovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, ...