2006-06-18 08:07:33 · 14 answers · asked by dread pirate lavenderbeard 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
A compass would be useless at the magnetic poles. That's because compass needs not only point north, but they also align themselves with Earth's magnetic field. In the low latitudes, a compass needle will be more or less parallel to the surface. Near the magnetic pole, though, the compass needle will try to point "into" the ground, following the lines of force; being incapable of that, it will no longer be useful.
2006-06-24 05:13:12 · answer #1 · answered by heraclius@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's really not much of a magnetic field there, the different fields cancel each other out. The needle is never stable and when you get to the exact center, it just spins around with your movement.
2006-06-18 15:11:10 · answer #2 · answered by Rockstar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were standing at the North Pole with a compass every direction you faced the compass would indicate south.
2006-06-18 22:15:34 · answer #3 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. IT would spin in circles bacause you are at the center of the magnetic feild .
2006-06-18 15:13:54 · answer #4 · answered by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would spin out of control like in the bermuda triangle
2006-06-18 15:10:36 · answer #5 · answered by Puertorican Problem 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would sort of spin like a compass gone mad.
2006-06-18 15:10:17 · answer #6 · answered by Davey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cold.
2006-06-18 15:09:37 · answer #7 · answered by claymore 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It spins around.
2006-06-18 15:09:01 · answer #8 · answered by Jimmy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will finnaly come to the south.
Head up in the stratosphere and north of gravity.
2006-06-18 15:11:16 · answer #9 · answered by kangro_punch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it wouldn't really do anything. Not being pulled anywhere, it would most likely stay where it was.
2006-06-18 15:11:08 · answer #10 · answered by bradley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋