After the commission of inquiry into the wreck of " Admella ", the loss was attributed to the effects of a current that pushed the vessel off course, although investigations were also held into a magnetic disturbance in the area that may have affected the compasses on iron-hulled ships.
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Earth-bound mission controllers who monitor signals from scores of satellites may have difficulty tracking their orbiting spacecraft this weekend, Murtagh said, and magnetic disturbances in space may cause weather satellites to transmit " snowy " images rather than the clear pictures that television weather reporters regularly display during TV news broadcasts.
