The Earth is spinning faster, and recently recorded its shortest day ever, scientists say. June 29, 2022 was 1.59 millisecond less than the average day, scientist Leonid Zotov told CBS News. The normal length of day is 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds. But in recent years, the Earth's ...
Earth Is Spinning Faster Than Usual, Leading to the Shortest Day Ever Recorded This minuscule change in time means we might need to consider a negative leap second. By Tim NewcombPublished: Aug 01, 2022 2:01 PM EDT Save Article Matthias Kulka//Getty Images On June 29, Earth experienced ...
For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. Clocks may have to skip a second — called a "negative leap second" — around 2029, astudy in the j...
【词汇银行】suggest v.建议;表明recent adj.最近的【难句解析】Scientists think that the earth is spinning fasterthan it used to.本句为复合句。句意:科学家认为地球自转速度比过去快了;“..thatthe earth is spinning faster than t used to”为宾语从句;宾语从句为比较级结构,将地球现在的自转速度与过去...
Earth is spinning faster than usual and had its shortest day everCBS - August 4, 2022 The Earth is spinning faster, and recently recorded its shortest day ever, scientists say. June 29, 2022 was 1.59 millisecond less than the average day. The normal length of day is 24 hours, or 86,40...
The Earth is spinning faster than it has in five decades, scientists say. Since last year, a full day has been taking less than the normal 24 hours. July 19, 2020, was the shortest day since scientists began keeping records in the 1960s - 1.4602 milliseconds shorter than the full 24 ho...
This is not abnormal or alarming because days on Earth can be slightly longer or shorter than average due to the activity of the planet’s molten core, ocean currents and atmosphere. But so many faster days in 2020 could be a sign that Earth’s rotation is accelerating overall, say experts...
July 19. Earth’s spin clocked in at 1.4602 milliseconds faster than usual on that date.There are several reasons for this change in speed. The movement of the planet’s core can affect Earth's spin. Weather and ocean patterns on the surface can have an impact too. For many years, scie...
Earth keeps spinning faster—but why? timeanddate checks the latest numbers. For the past few years, our planet has been spinning unusually fast. ©iStockphoto.com/AleksandarGeorgiev Shortest Day of Atomic-Clock Era Earth has recorded its shortest day since scientists began usingatomic clocksto...
“we might experience reverse rain,” Fraczek speculates. “Droplets of water could start moving up in the atmosphere.” At that point, the Earth would be spinning more than 17 times faster that it is now, and there probably wouldn’t be many humans left in the equatorial region to ...