Articles for tag: Earth Science, Earth’s magnetic field, Geomagnetic Events, Magnetic Pole Reversal, Space Weather

The Day Earth’s Magnetic Field Flipped – and What Followed

Suhail Ahmed

Imagine waking up to a world where every compass needle swings south, auroras spill over Miami, and pilots update cockpit charts as routinely as weather briefings. That sounds like science fiction, but Earth has flipped its magnetic poles many times, and it will do so again. The puzzle has never been whether a reversal happens, ...