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Aurora: Dancing lights at Magnetic Poles of Earth
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Post date: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 14:47

I am wintering at Antarctica and it is a great feeling to be on top of the world, literally. The vast expanse of ice, the chilling and biting cold, and the prolonged night that spills into days and then into months, gives a surreal feeling of being in a place that is ‘out of this world’. The dancing lights further add to this mystique. The ‘painted curtains’ furling in the jaded polar nights... Read More

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WHY DO WE HAVE TO STUDY GEOMAGNETISM? (Part-I)
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Post date: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - 17:35

George Mallory, English mountaineer, exclaimed “because it is there” in response to a question why he wants to climb Mount Everest. This is the most obvious and simplistic answer.

Why do we need to study geomagnetism, can also elicit the same innocent response. I can recite thousands of ‘academic’ and ‘practical’ reasons though. The scientists, operative in the arena of geomagnetism,... Read More

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