11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
... north and the other points south. However, although prone to drifting on a regular basis, new updates from ESA’s swarm mission show that the magnetic north pole is shifting location more rapidly than before; just over three...
19 August 2020
Growing 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field poses problems for satellites
...however last year, using data from their Swarm telescopes, ESA reported that the anomaly was causing technical ...split into two lobes, creating additional challenges for satellite missions. Earth’s magnetic field is often visualised as a powerful...
31 October 2016
Swarm constellation helps figure out why satellites lose their GPS signal
...technical challenge being turned into exciting science, a true essence of an Earth Explorer mission such as Swarm,” added Rune Floberghagen, ESA’s Swarm mission manager. “These new findings demonstrate that GPS can be used as a tool for understanding...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... belts, that are held in place by Earth’s magnetic poles, are increasingly at risk of being greatly diminished. ESA’s Swarm mission satellites are designed to measure Earth’s magnetosphere. These satellites confirm what we had begun to suspect - that...
