Earthquake data hint that the inner core stopped rotating faster than the
This isn’t the beginning of the end times. Instead, the findings stoke debate about how the core influences some of the most fundamental parts of our planet.
In the past 13 years, the rotation of the planet's solid inner core may
Yeah, the inner core spins separate from the rest of Earth.
Some 4800 kilometres below the Earth’s surface, a scorching hot ball of solid iron floats inside a liquid outer core. It behaves differently to Earth itself.
Researchers proposed a model with a 70-year rotation cycle of our planet’s iron heart, and report that we’re in the middle of one of its big shifts.
A team of researchers from China believe the Earth's inner core has
PARIS — Far below our feet, a giant may have started moving against us. Earth’s inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, research suggested on Monday. Roughly 5,000 kilometres below the surface we live on, this “planet within the planet” can spin independently because it floats in the liquid metal outer core. Exactly how the inner core rotates has been a matter of debate between...
The "planet within a planet" has been shown to move at its own pace; speeding up, slowing down and rotating, and a new study suggests that the inner core might be operating on a seventy year cycle.
Though it may sound alarming, researchers say this likely isn’t the first time this has happened.
Though it may sound alarming, researchers say this likely isn’t the first time this has happened.
(NEXSTAR) – Deep in the center of the Earth is the inner core, which spans