In recent days, the ‘Bermuda Triangle‘, This mysterious area of the Earth located between Miami, the Bahamas and Puerto Rico, was one of the most popular topics of conversation among people.
This was due to the resumption of statements by John Tarduno, a professor of geophysics at the University of Rochester, made in August 2020.
At the time, the scholar was associated with the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). However, Tarduno and the agency have nothing to do.
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At first, it was reported that Tarduno had said that “I don’t like the nickname of the‘ Bermuda Triangle ’, but in this region, the lower intensity of geomagnetic field ends up causing a greater vulnerability of satellites to energy particles. , to the point that damage to spacecraft could occur when crossing the area “.
While his words were true, the scholar did not refer to the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in the North American region, but to the South Atlantic Anomaly (or SAA, for its acronym in English). ).
And what is SAA? It is a region of outer space over the Atlantic Ocean (between Brazil and Africa) where satellites and other electronic devices behave in a particular way due to a weakness of the Earth’s magnetic field.
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Many scientists have called this area the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ of space ‘, a nickname that not everyone likes (including Tarduno) to lend to misinterpretations.
It should also be noted that this area in space is the subject of study not only by NASA, but by all space agencies, as the understanding of this space region is fundamental to the operation of its various missions, manned and unmanned.
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