The South Atlantic Anomaly

[Snoweagle]

Posted by Amzer Zo (here)
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What generates the scenario put forth in the video is this:
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South Atlantic Anomaly
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The anomaly at an altitude of approximately 560 kilometers[1]

The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is an area where the Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the Earth's surface dipping down to an altitude of 200km (124mi). This leads to an increased flux of energetic particles in this region and exposes orbiting satellites to higher than usual levels of radiation. The effect is caused by the non-concentricity of the Earth and its magnetic dipole, and the SAA is the near-Earth region where the Earth's magnetic field is weakest.
Position and shape
The Van Allen radiation belts are symmetric about the Earth's magnetic axis, which is tilted with respect to the Earth's rotational axis by an angle of ~11 degrees. The intersection between the magnetic and rotation axes of the Earth is located ~500 kilometres (300 mi) more to the North, above the centre of the Earth. Because of this tilt and translation, the inner Van Allen belt is closest to the Earth's surface over the south Atlantic ocean where it dips down to 200km (124mi) altitude, and farthest from the Earth's surface over the north Pacific ocean.[2]

A cross-sectional view of the Van Allen radiation belts, noting the point where the South Atlantic Anomaly occurs

The highest intensity portion of the SAA drifts to the west at a speed of about 0.3 degrees per year, and is noticeable in the references listed below. The drift rate of the SAA is very close to the rotation differential between the Earth's core and its surface, estimated to be between 0.3 and 0.5 degrees per year.
Current literature suggests that a slow weakening of the geomagnetic field is one of several causes for the changes in the borders of the SAA since its discovery. As the geomagnetic field continues to weaken, the inner Van Allen belt gets closer to the Earth, with a commensurate enlargement of the SAA at given altitudes.[citation needed]
Effects
The South Atlantic Anomaly is of great significance to astronomical satellites and other spacecraft that orbit the Earth at several hundred kilometers altitude; these orbits take satellites through the anomaly periodically, exposing them to several minutes of strong radiation, caused by the trapped protons in the inner Van Allen belt. The International Space Station, orbiting with an inclination of 51.6°, requires extra shielding to deal with this problem. The Hubble Space Telescope does not take observations while passing through the SAA.[5] Astronauts are also affected by this region which is said to be the cause of peculiar 'shooting stars' (phosphenes) seen in the visual field of astronauts.[6] Passing through the South Atlantic Anomaly is thought[7] to be the reason for the early failures of the Globalstar network's satellites.
The PAMELA experiment, while passing through the SAA, detected antiproton levels that were orders of magnitude higher than those expected from normal particle decay. This suggests the Van Allen belt confines antiparticles produced by the interaction of the Earth's upper atmosphere with cosmic rays.[8]
NASA has reported that modern laptops have crashed when the space shuttle flights passed through the anomaly.[9]
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Most too often, this South Atlantic Anomaly is taken as meaning the Earth magnetic poles inversion is afoot... something which would need more evidence.

Saves me starting a new thread:-)
The South Atlantic anomaly is the effect caused by the newly discovered PYRAMID(S) in South America. (bet you weren't expecting that)
In the documentary by the BBC "The Core", the NASA spokesman stated with verification that the refurbished Hubble telescope consistently failed, bordering destruction whenever the telescope passed over South America. Something had to be done. So everytime it passed over that particular region NASA had to power down the telescope and restart it afterwards. The anomaly location was pretty well known apparently, so a solution was found. Guess what:-)
The Bush family bought a ranch in South America bordering three Nations with exclusive ownership, blah blah. Supported by half a military brigade (probably more) on the ground of US finest secret keepers. Now we know why.
The anomaly is the same GRAVITATIONAL forces found in the Bermuda triangle and the Alaskan triangle. The Bermuda triangle anomaly was partly solved by the secret removal of ancient components from the Cuban sub sea PYRAMIDS. The remainder of the Bermuda triangle problem will be resolved when the mid Atlantic PYRAMIDS are raped by the same elite using American/French/UK tax dollars and logistic support. (this is why the French aircraft was downed in the Atlantic to move the resources into position).
The anomalies are caused by each of the PYRAMIDS still having ACTIVE "Arks of the COVENANT" which are extra terrestrial super conductors each residing in the "Kings Chambers" of each of the pyramids.
The Ark of the Covenant from Khufu was stolen by Moses and the twelve tribes returning to pay homage to the dead Pharaoh who hadn't a successor and in the political confusion, along with the accompanying "priests" of the exodus tribe nicked the Ark and accompanying records. The Ark had earlier been removed from the pyramid by Khufu, during which there was a god almighty explosion which damaged the granite sarcophagus and granite roof.

[Paul]

Posted by Snoweagle (here)
Saves me starting a new thread:-)

New thread -- good idea .

This thread began life as a post on another thread, here.

[Karunai]

I wonder if that affects people living there, specially those in those many cities in the Andes.

[sdv]

More on the SAA from the Hermanus Observatory, which monitors the SAA (magnetic polar flip way overdue and predicted to happen within the next 300 years):

http://www.kipnews.org/2011/11/18/ma...iation-damage/

Here's an interesting graph showing magnetic pole shifts over centuries:



And here's another graph looking into the future:

I wonder if that affects people living there, specially those in those many cities in the Andes.

Those folks living in South America and Southern Africa are more vulnerable if a solar storm hits Earth.

[Karunai]

Those folks living in South America and Southern Africa are more vulnerable if a solar storm hits Earth.

Yeap... "interesting" place to be.

Just to add a tiny bit to the thread:
Smidgen of antimatter surrounds Earth
Space Mission PAMELA
Anomalia Magnética do Atlântico Sul (Portuguese)
Campus de pesquisas Geofísicas Major Edsel de Freitas Coutinho (Portuguese)
Vile Vortices
OAGA Uruguay (Spanish)
Uruguay, el menos magnético -the less magnetic- (article in Spanish)