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Earth's magnetic field

An article about the huge magnetic field that surrounds the Earth and stretches into space.

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http://www.universetoday.com/27005/earths-magnetic-field/

Are the Earth's magnetic poles moving?

Brief ideas regarding magnetic polar wandering.

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-the-earths-magnetic-p

The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere

A huge collection of articles on the Earth 's magnetic field from NASA.

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http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/Intro.html

What causes the periodic reversals of the earth's magnetic field?

A page from Scientific American about historical flips of the Earth 's poles (known as geomagnetic reversal)

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-causes-the-periodic

Earth's poles may switch

Short article from PhysicsWeb (Institute of Physics) which discusses possible future shifts in the orientation of the earth's magnetic field.

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http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/3100

Magnetism and the San Francisco Bay area

An exploration of the earth's magnetic field and the links between magnetic anomalies and the geology of the San Francisco Bay area.

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http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/gump/people/zulanger/bayarea/magnetism_ofr.html

Can the Earth 's magnetic field dwindle away?

A Nasa answer to this interesting question.

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http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/magnQ&A3.htm#q34

Aurora

When energetic charged particles enter the earth's atmosphere from the solar wind, they tend to be channeled toward the poles by the magnetic force.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/aurora.html#c1

Magnetic flip

Comprehensive information on geomagnetic reversal, or how the Earth's poles could flip .

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http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/reversals.html

IMAGE - Auroral science

Information about the earth's magnetic field, solar wind, the magnetosphere, Van Allen belts and space weather from NASA's IMAGE mission.

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http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/
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