South Africa Satellites

Sunday Times, July 18, 2004

Southern Africa is experiencing weird vibes, according to scientists studying one of the more profound upheavals awaiting planet Earth. This forthcoming revolution is a reversal in the Earth's magnetic field. Signs that the reversal is about to happen again are nowhere more apparent than over Southern Africa, according to Dr Pieter Kotze, head of the geomagnetism group at the Hermanus Magnetic Observatory in the southern Cape. Satellites in low-Earth orbit over Southern Africa are already showing signs of radiation damage suffered as a result of the Earth's magnetic field weakening above our part of the planet. The field forms the magnetosphere, which, like the Earth's ozone layer, protects the planet from the sun's harmful radiation.