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If you take a compass and follow its pointy little needle, you will end up in Northern Canada but not at the North Pole. If you have a boat, you'll end up on Ellesmere Island wondering where Santa is hiding. The fact that the rotational north pole of the Earth and the magnetic pole of the Earth don’t align means that if you want to actually get to the Earth’s rotational North Pole - the one the pole sticks out of on your globe - you have to look up corrections online and veer a little bit in whatever direction the correction happens to be at the moment. And if you are catching this show sometime far, far in the future, then Ellesmere Island that is true in early 2024 is likely no longer true.

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The Compass (Sometimes... Kinda) Points North

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News

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Konten disediakan oleh Pamela Gay, Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Beth Johnson, and Ally Pelphrey. Semua konten podcast termasuk episode, grafik, dan deskripsi podcast diunggah dan disediakan langsung oleh Pamela Gay, Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Beth Johnson, and Ally Pelphrey atau mitra platform podcast mereka. Jika Anda yakin seseorang menggunakan karya berhak cipta Anda tanpa izin, Anda dapat mengikuti proses yang diuraikan di sini https://id.player.fm/legal.

If you take a compass and follow its pointy little needle, you will end up in Northern Canada but not at the North Pole. If you have a boat, you'll end up on Ellesmere Island wondering where Santa is hiding. The fact that the rotational north pole of the Earth and the magnetic pole of the Earth don’t align means that if you want to actually get to the Earth’s rotational North Pole - the one the pole sticks out of on your globe - you have to look up corrections online and veer a little bit in whatever direction the correction happens to be at the moment. And if you are catching this show sometime far, far in the future, then Ellesmere Island that is true in early 2024 is likely no longer true.

… continue reading

346 episode

#Pamela Gay #Dr. Pamela Gay #Moon #Sciencenews #Space #Spacecraft #Astronomy #Science #Natural Sciences #Beth Johnson #Cosmology #Ally Pelphrey #ESA #JAXA #NASA #Planet #Star

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