{"id":177118,"date":"2023-11-30T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/earths-magnetic-field-protects-life-on-earth-from-radiation-but-it-can-move-and-the-magnetic-poles-can-even-flip"},"modified":"2023-11-30T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:24:22","slug":"earths-magnetic-field-protects-life-on-earth-from-radiation-but-it-can-move-and-the-magnetic-poles-can-even-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/earths-magnetic-field-protects-life-on-earth-from-radiation-but-it-can-move-and-the-magnetic-poles-can-even-flip","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s magnetic field protects life on Earth from radiation, but it can move, and the magnetic poles can even flip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MtLC8evycaE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Earth\u2019s magnetic field plays a big role in protecting people from hazardous radiation and geomagnetic activity that could affect satellite communication and the operation of power grids. And it moves.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have studied and tracked the motion of the magnetic poles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/products\/wandering-geomagnetic-poles\">for centuries<\/a>. The historical movement of these poles indicates a change in the global geometry of the Earth\u2019s magnetic field. It may even indicate the beginning of a field reversal\u2014a \u201cflip\u201d between the north and south <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+poles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic poles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uml.edu\/research\/locsst\/about\/faculty-staff\/cohen-ofer.aspx\">I\u2019m a physicist<\/a> who studies the interaction between the planets and space. While the north magnetic pole moving a little bit isn\u2019t a big deal, a reversal could have a big impact on Earth\u2019s climate and our modern technology. But these reversals don\u2019t happen instantaneously. Instead, they occur over thousands of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Earth\u2019s magnetic field plays a big role in protecting people from hazardous radiation and geomagnetic activity that could affect satellite communication and the operation of power grids. And it moves. Scientists have studied and tracked the motion of the magnetic poles for centuries. The historical movement of these poles indicates a change in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}