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Illustration of Earth as its bombarded with high-energy particles from the Sun's coronal mass ejection. Our planet's magnetic field acts like a shield protecting the planet against harmful radiation. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

No Worries – Scientists Say Earth’s Poles Won’t Flip for 4,000 Years

February 9, 2017

The Earth’s magnetic fields helps create a shield that protects us from the continuous onslaught of highly charged space particles and radiation, which are dangerous to creatures living on the Earth’s surface. Without these protective fields, scientists say that the solar wind also would simply blow away our atmosphere in way similar to what scientists suspect […]

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