Earth's inner core may have started spinning other way: study
Far below our feet, a giant may have started moving against us.
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Far below our feet, a giant may have started moving against us.
Some 4800 kilometres below the surface, a scorching hot ball of solid iron floats inside a liquid outer core. It behaves differently to Earth itself.
The provocative findings come after years of research and deep scientific disagreements about the core and how it influences some of the most fundamental aspects of our planet, including the length of a day and fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field.
Earth's core, a sphere of nearly pure iron 5,000 kilometers deeper and hotter than the Sun's surface, will lose momentum and begin spinning in the
The provocative findings come after years of research and deep scientific disagreements about the core and how it influences some of the most fundamental aspects of our planet.