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NASA Is Watching a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field


NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.

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