Sentences with phrase «south magnetic pole»

- Where the North magnetic pole was being «pushed on» becomes «pulled on» - Where the South magnetic pole was being «pulled on», becomes «pushed on» The Earth's magnetic and gravitational field around the equator changes very much seasonally, due to constant rotation and equally distributed exposure to the Sun's E / M field.

The auroras, both surrounding the north magnetic pole (aurora borealis) and south magnetic pole (aurora australis) occur when highly charged electrons from the solar wind interact with elements in the earth's atmosphere.

The polarity of the leading sunspot alternates every solar cycle, so that it will be a north magnetic pole in one solar cycle and a south magnetic pole in the next.

From a physics standpoint, then, the north needle of a compass (or any magnet) points to what is physically — but not in name — the south magnetic pole of the earth, in other words, in the direction of the Arctic.

While this journey to the southward was in progress, another party of the expedition climbed Mount Erebus, and a third party reached the south magnetic pole and located it, in 72 deg.

SOLE POLE Scientists are searching for hypothetical particles called magnetic monopoles, which have a single north or south magnetic pole.

Since north poles are attracted to south poles, the «north» arrow on your compass actually points toward the earth's south magnetic pole, which is the one up north.

As the molten rock solidified, the minerals preserved a record of Earth's polarity, the direction its north and south magnetic poles pointed at the time.

These concentrations have both north and south magnetic poles, which are the «foot points» of magnetic loops extending into the solar corona.

Not exact matches

The earth has North and South poles because of the «Magnetic Field» generated by the its metallic molten core.

David Hempleman - Adams is the first man to have reached both the geographic and magnetic North and South poles, as well as climb the highest peaks in all seven continents.

In fact the magnetic dipole is shifted from the center of the planet towards the south rotational pole by as much as one third of the planetary radius.

THE TOUR GUIDE Occidental College geologist Scott Bogue has spent more than 30 years studying magnetic field reversals — periods when Earth's north and south poles trade places — in Hawaii, Nevada, and Washington.

Magnetic poles are seemingly inseparable: Slice a magnet in half, and you get two smaller magnets, each with its own north and south poles.

Which could account for our planet's weird history of magnetic field reversals, with north and south poles swapping places.

In a magnetic material, such as iron, each atom acts like a tiny bar magnet with its own north and south poles.

Unlike Earth, which has two magnetic poles (north and south), ice giants can have many local magnetic poles, which leading theories suggest may be due to superionic ice and ionic water in the mantle of these planets.

This current fills the core and is the source of tremendous magnetism; its poles, located roughly at the ends of Earth's axis, mark magnetic north and south.

12 And the earth's magnetic south (aka «north») pole isn't even precisely at the geographic north pole.

For every action, there's a reaction; every positive charge has a negative; every magnetic north pole has a south pole.

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.

As far as we can tell, though, nature only supplies magnetic charges, or poles, in pairs — the inseparable north and south poles of the bar magnets beloved of school science demonstrations, for example.

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.

Hypothetical particles called magnetic monopoles, envisioned in the wider illustration, would possess only a north or south pole.

And here's something to add even more confusion to the north magnetic pole (aka dip pole) versus north geomagnetic pole (aka dipole): the magnetic pole in Earth's northern hemisphere acts like the south pole of a bar magnet.

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.

Correction: This article has been updated to correct the frequency with which the north and south poles of Earth's magnetic field swap places.

6 Reversal of Earth's magnetic field Every few hundred thousand years Earth's magnetic field dwindles almost to nothing for perhaps a century, then gradually reappears with the north and south poles flipped.

Ulysses then amazed scientists by revealing that the Sun has no clearly defined magnetic south pole.

Los Alamos National Laboratory staff scientist Cristiano Nisoli explained, «The emergence of magnetic monopoles in spin ice systems is a particular case of what physicists call fractionalization, or deconfinement of quasi-particles that together are seen as comprising the fundamental unit of the system, in this case the north and south poles of a nanomagnet.

In the honeycomb pattern, where three magnetic poles intersect, a net charge of north or south is forced at each vertex.

And that if you heat a magnet up enough, then you have no magnet at all: High temperatures randomly jumble all the bits of magnetic material (ultimately orientations of spinning electrons) that had aligned themselves along the north - to - south - pole axis.

The first major hint came in 2005, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected magnetic field distortions along with plumes of water vapor and ice erupting from its south pole.

For instance electrical and magnetic forces have offsetting contributions; you might have a positive and negative charge or a north pole and south pole and those things tend to cancel out.

«These rocks were deposited on the ocean floor 440 million years ago near the south pole, and its components were oriented in the direction of the Earth's magnetic field at the time (N - S),» explains Javier Fernández Lozano, a geologist at the University of Salamanca and co-author of the research.

The magnetic field is also off - centre, originating about a third of the way towards the planet's south pole.

His results showed that around 1 billion years ago, Earth could have transitioned from a modern - looking field, having a «strong» magnetic field with two opposite poles in the north and south of the planet, to having a «weak» magnetic field that fluctuated wildly in terms of intensity and direction and originated from several poles.

This magnetic field, as it exists today, has two poles — north and south.

Not only does the Earths magnetic field wander around on time scales of a century or so, but every 100,000 years or so it completely changes direction, with the north (magnetic) pole becoming the south (magnetic) pole.

Sunspot groups have a magnetic field with a north and a south pole, and, in each 11 - year rise and fall, the same polarity leads in a given hemisphere, while the opposite polarity leads in the other.

And since both sets of rocks contained palaeo - magnetic evidence of the north and south poles» periodical reversals, researchers were able to calibrate the evidence and arrive at an accurate calendar of changing climate conditions, every 405 millennia.

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.

if I had the time and the money, I would really like to know the relationship of the position of earth's inner core [as apparent from the position of earth's magnetic north and south pole] and the W / m2 that comes from earth's inside to the top.