The Compass (Sometimes... Kinda) Points North EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News podcast

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The Compass (Sometimes... Kinda) Points North

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

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The Compass (Sometimes... Kinda) Points North

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News

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Indhold leveret af Pamela Gay, Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Beth Johnson, and Ally Pelphrey. Alt podcastindhold inklusive episoder, grafik og podcastbeskrivelser uploades og leveres direkte af Pamela Gay, Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Beth Johnson, and Ally Pelphrey eller deres podcastplatformspartner. Hvis du mener, at nogen bruger dit ophavsretligt beskyttede værk uden din tilladelse, kan du følge processen beskrevet her https://da.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 episoder

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

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