Sentences with phrase «toward magnetic north»

When you select the compass function, the minute hand swings around toward magnetic north and the hour hand toward south.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The north magnetic pole in recent years has started shifting quickly toward Siberia.

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.

North of Norway over the Norwegian and Greenland Seas, the magnetic bubble surrounding the Earth dips inward, allowing space particles to funnel in toward the planet.

CMEs emerging from sunspots located at latitudes of 60 ˚ or higher, north and south, can have their tracks bent by the sun's magnetic field and pushed out toward the planets by the 500 - kilometer - per - second solar wind.

We propose that the cycle may be caused by modulation of cosmic ray (CR) flux by the Solar system vertical oscillation (64 My period) in the galaxy, the galactic north - south anisotropy of CR production in the galactic halo / wind / termination shock (due to the galactic motion toward the Virgo cluster), and the shielding by galactic magnetic fields.