There is a crack in the Earth’s geomagnetic armor, and it is growing. NASA calls it a “dent” and believes it will not only continue to grow, but will split in two. The dent, located above the South Atlantic Ocean, has been expanding for the past two centuries, and this South Atlantic Anomaly affects the communications of satellites and other spaceflight facilities as they pass between South America and southern Africa.
The newest addition to the list is a new one. (Photo/reproduced from NASA official website)
This is because a large number of charged solar particles penetrate the magnetic field, which may lead to the failure of computers and electrical circuits.
Paris Institute of Earth Physics (Paris Institute of Earth Physics) of geomagnetic experts Julien Aubert (Julien Aubert) said that this thing is getting bigger and bigger. He believes, “The dent may be related to two huge dense rock masses buried 2,897 kilometers deep in the Earth’s interior that, because of their composition, interfere with the liquid metal of the outer core and thus generate a magnetic field.”
The two rock masses are millions of times larger than Mount Everest, said Qian Yuan, a researcher at Arizona State University who studies geodynamics.
Qian Yuan’s team believes the debris originated on another world, where an ancient planet about the size of Mars crashed into Earth and may have been the debris it left behind. This planet, called Theia, hit the infant Earth 4.5 billion years ago, and the collision created the moon. Two parts of Theia are thought to have sunk and remained deep within the Earth.
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