Solution

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Near the north magnetic pole, take the inducing magnetic field and induced magnetic moment as vertically downward. Directly above the car, its anomalous field reinforces the main field: a positive central total-field magnetic anomaly results. Along a horizontal traverse, the vertical-dipole approximation gives a symmetric central high flanked by weaker negative side lobes:
where is the depth from the sensor to the effective dipole centre. The anomaly width scales with ; no absolute amplitude can be calculated without the car's magnetic moment.

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