Odd Thermal Anomaly Observed In Atlantic Ocean

Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com – NASA has released a satellite photo that shows something peculiar. Are we witnessing a fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?

According to NASA, a thermal anomaly was documented in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean during a scan in July 2017. Scientists say the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly (SAMA) caused the anomaly.

As previously discussed on MessageToEagle.com beneath Africa there is an unusual anomaly that is weakening Earth’s magnetic field dramatically. Researchers have gathered new data that provides evidence that region in southern Africa, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly may play a unique role in magnetic pole reversals.

Odd Thermal Anomaly Observed In Atlantic Ocean

On July 14, 2017, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this night image of the South Atlantic. The red dot several hundred kilometers off the coast of Brazil is a thermal anomaly—an area of Earth’s surface flagged by the satellite as being unusually warm. Credit: NASA

It now seems that the South Atlantic Anomaly is also responsible for certain abnormalities in the middle of the ocean. The South Atlantic allows exposure to an extra dose of radiation, according to NASA’s Atmospheric Science Data Center.

The atmosphere takes care of most of the high-energy particles so that they don’t cause problems at the surface, but there are enough in space close enough to Earth to affect electronic systems on spacecraft.

NASA makes clear that what we see on this satellite image is not a fire in the middle of the ocean. The majority of those anomalies are caused by fires. But every now and then, you get one that’s a little bit harder to explain, like one in the middle of the ocean.

Obviously a fire isn’t burning in the middle of the ocean,” Patricia Olivia, a Universidad Mayor scientist, said in a NASA release dated July 2017 when VIIRS spotted an anomaly a few hundred miles off the coast of Brazil.

According to NASA, “natural gas flares also trigger thermal anomalies, but they are only found in shallow waters near the coast. Volcanic activity can light up the satellite as well, but there are no volcanoes anywhere near this area.

“It is almost certainly SAMA,” said Olivia.

South Atlantic Anomaly

The International Space Station has been layered with extra protection because of SAMA, and the Hubble Space Telescope shuts down when it traverses the area.

With VIIRS, the abundance of particles in the atmosphere causes its extremely sensitive radiometer to pick some up. When the team developing the fire data product first began to process data, they were taken aback by how many of those particles came back as fires.

“Each night, the sensor was detecting several dozen thermal anomalies over the Atlantic Ocean in places that didn’t make sense,” said Wilfrid Schoeder, the principal investigator for VIIRS’s fire product.

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The team formed an algorithm that would remove any suspicious anomaly with signs of being caused by SAMA — a signal that was substantially weak, sat over the ocean or was short-lived.

The rare blip or two on the radar caused by SAMA will still slip through the system every night, Schroeder said, but that pales in comparison to the thousands of real thermal anomalies VIIRS documents.


 

“In developing an algorithm like this for a global data product, we had to find a balance. If we are too aggressive with our filtering, there is a risk that we will remove real fires from the data record,” Olivia said. “I don’t think people realize that most satellite data products go through a whole battery of calibration and validation tests to address issues like this.”

The shape of the South Atlantic Anomaly changes over time and our understanding of this remarkable process in the ocean is still limited. Some scientists have put forward an intriguing theory suggesting that the South Atlantic Anomaly could be a gateway to parallel worlds or other dimensions

Written by Cynthia McKanzie MessageToEagle.com Staff Writer