{"id":2411,"date":"2012-01-27T06:44:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2012-01-27T06:44:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:44:29","slug":"solar-storm-causes-pole-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/01\/solar-storm-causes-pole-shift-2411.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar Storm Causes Pole Shift?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1284\" href=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/06\/solar-flare-photo-1221.html\/sun_solar_flare\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1284\" title=\"sun_solar_flare\" src=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/sun_solar_flare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/sun_solar_flare.jpg 510w, http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/sun_solar_flare-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Planetary magnetic fields are generated by flows in the hot, liquid iron cores of the planets. Measurements made by Mariner 10 in 1974\/75 showed that Mercury also has a magnetic field. According to the standard models, the dynamo effect in its metal core should generate similar field strengths to those on Earth. Mercury\u2019s magnetic field is 150 times weaker than that of our planet, however. This has recently been confirmed by the Nasa space probe Messenger.<\/p>\n<p>How can the large discrepancy in the field strength be explained? This question has now been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-12-mercury-magnetic-field-nipped.html\">answered<\/a> by a group headed by Karl-Heinz Glassmeier at the Technische Universit\u00e4t Braunschweig. The solar wind \u2013 a constant stream of charged particles \u2013 plays a significant role. At an average distance from the Sun of only 58 million kilometres \u2013 around one third of the distance of the Earth \u2013 Mercury is much more exposed to these particles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must keep in mind that Mercury stongly interacts with the  surrounding solar wind,\u201d says Daniel Heyner, lead author of the article  published in Science and doctoral student at the International Max  Planck Research School (IMPRS) in Katlenburg-Lindau. This interaction  drives strong electrical currents in the magnetosphere of the planet,  whose magnetic fields counteract the internal dynamo effect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s really hard to gauge from the article whether a short-term change in the solar wind could cause our magnetic poles to flip, but it sounds like it could at least be the trigger. Or to put it another way, a massive spike of particles from the Sun is unlikely to have zero affect of the core of Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planetary magnetic fields are generated by flows in the hot, liquid iron cores of the planets. Measurements made by Mariner 10 in 1974\/75 showed that Mercury also has a magnetic field. According to the standard models, the dynamo effect in its metal core should generate similar field strengths to those on Earth. Mercury\u2019s magnetic field is 150 times weaker than that of our planet, however. This has recently been confirmed by the Nasa space probe Messenger.<br \/>\nHow can the large discrepancy in the field strength be explained? This question has now been answered by a group headed by Karl-Heinz Glassmeier at the Technische Universit\u00e4t Braunschweig. The solar wind \u2013 a constant stream of charged particles \u2013 plays a significant role. At an average distance from the Sun of only 58 million kilometres \u2013 around one third of the distance of the Earth \u2013 Mercury is much more exposed to these particles.<br \/>\n\u201cWe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,129,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magnetic-pole-shift","category-solar-storm","category-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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