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Patrick Pester

Satellites detected strange gravity signal coming from deep within Earth almost 20 years ago, study reveals

A concept illustration of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites over Earth. .

Satellites detected a strange gravity signal off the coast of Africa nearly 20 years ago, suggesting something unusual had happened deep within the planet to distort its gravitational field, according to a recent study.

The large gravitational anomaly lasted for about two years over the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It peaked in January 2007, the same month Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone (though, of course, there was no connection between the two events).

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