Date: 28/04/2018 21:31:37
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1217891
Subject: Did You Know the Earth Has a Second Magnetic Field? Its Oceans

Did You Know the Earth Has a Second Magnetic Field? Its Oceans

Earth’s magnetic field is one of the most mysterious features of our planet. It is also essential to life as we know it, ensuring that our atmosphere is not stripped away by solar wind and shielding life on Earth from harmful radiation. For some time, scientists have theorized that it is the result of a dynamo action in our core, where the liquid outer core revolves around the solid inner core and in the opposite direction of the Earth’s rotation.

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Date: 28/04/2018 22:33:45
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1217903
Subject: re: Did You Know the Earth Has a Second Magnetic Field? Its Oceans

Comic: hunting for that elusive magnetic signal

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Date: 28/04/2018 22:36:28
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1217904
Subject: re: Did You Know the Earth Has a Second Magnetic Field? Its Oceans

Tau.Neutrino said:


Comic: hunting for that elusive magnetic signal

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Date: 28/04/2018 23:08:21
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1217921
Subject: re: Did You Know the Earth Has a Second Magnetic Field? Its Oceans

Yes. I did know.

This isn’t significant for Earth, but on Uranus and Neptune the planetary magnetic field is dominated by the field generated by the circulations of their salt water oceans.

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