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Scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic has expanded by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014, weakening especially faster 2020 onwards.


Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic – known as the South Atlantic Anomaly – has expanded by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014.

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