Sentences with phrase «south magnetic line»

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But when the sun ejects major blasts of particles in flares and solar storms, these belts overflow and send electrons streaming toward Earth along the looping lines of the magnetic field, which intersect the planet near the north and south poles.

All known magnets have both a north and south pole, as illustrated in the inset image, with lines indicating the direction of the magnetic field.

So the north magnetic pole is where the earth's magnetic field lines pull toward the planet, acting like the south pole of a bar magnet.

Monarchs, they found, navigate north or south using the change in dip of Earth's magnetic field lines with latitude.

At the north and south poles the magnetic field lines converge, the Earth drags the atmosphere around a single point, the tropopause is lower, and temperature inversions are common.