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They then oriented the cylinder in a north-south direction set at a 57° angle. That made it perpendicular to both the Earth's rotational motion and the Earth's magnetic field.

In 2009-2010, the rotation of the Earth's inner core completely stopped. After such events, the inner core is expected to resume rotation, presumably in the same direction as the Earth itself.