Is the Earth’s Magnetic Field a Constant? A Legacy of Poisson

In the report he submitted to the Académie des Sciences, Poisson imagined a set of concentric spheres at the origin of Earth’s magnetic field. It may come as a surprise to many that Poisson as well as Gauss both considered the magnetic field to be constant. We propose in this study to test this surp...

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Main Authors: Jean-Louis Le Mouël, Fernando Lopes, Vincent Courtillot, Dominique Gibert, Jean-Baptiste Boulé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-07-01
Series:Geosciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/13/7/202