Earth Is Changing in Ways We Still Cannot Explain

#EarthMysteries #MagneticField #DeepEarth Right now, under South America, there is a hole in Earth's shield. Not a metaphor. A real gap in the planet's magnetic field, wide enough to knock out satellites passing through it. And it is splitting in two. Beneath your feet, the ground is humming. A steady, low note, playing nonstop, with no confirmed source. Scientists have caught it on land, caught it underwater, and still cannot fully explain it. Deep inside the core, a ball of iron the size of Pluto might be spinning backward. Under Antarctica's ice, lakes have stayed sealed off from daylight for millions of years, and something is alive in them. Somewhere over a storm tonight, a ball of light might flicker into existence, hover, and vanish, breaking rules physicists thought they understood. We think of Earth as finished. Mapped. Solved. But under the surface, in the sky above storms, in ice sheets, and in the spinning core, our planet is behaving in ways that do not match the textbooks. Get ready. We start at the crack in Earth's shield. Sources: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4840 , ESA Swarm Mission, esa.int, Nature Geoscience, nature.com, CNN, http://cnn.com , Live Science, http://livescience.com , ScienceAlert, http://sciencealert.com , Smithsonian Magazine, http://smithsonianmag.com , Scientific American, http://scientificamerican.com , PNAS, http://pnas.org , AGU Newsroom, http://news.agu.org , NOAA NCEI, http://ncei.noaa.gov , ScienceDaily, http://sciencedaily.com #Science #Geology #SpaceWeather #Volcanoes #DeepOcean #Mystery #Documentary