Earth's magnetic ocean tides mapped from spaceThis is the European Space Agency's spectacular new view of ocean tides as they sweep around the Earth. As the Moon pulls the salty seas through our planet's global magnetic field, electric currents are generated. The mission was sent into orbit in 2013 to bring fresh insight on Earth's magnetic behaviour. But there is one observation that will certainly have more general interest - that of the position of the north magnetic pole. The drift of the magnetic north pole is towards Russia -- Photo: ESAMost people know that it is not aligned with the geographic north pole and instead drifts around.

Source: VietNamNet News April 11, 2018 00:00 UTC