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The inner core is slightly smaller than the Moon but is more than three times denser. It represents less than two per cent of the mass of the Earth but nevertheless has had important effects on the Earth's magnetic field and on the thermal history of the core....
“We can compare the signals that we see when the inner core is returned to the same position as it was in some other time and see if there’s differences that can’t be explained by the rotation,” Vidale, Dean’s Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California’s...
Surrounding the inner core of the Earth is Earth's Layers If you could cut the Earth in half, you could see that it's made of several different layers. The outermost layer, called the crust, is the one that we walk on every day. The layer beneath the crust is called the mantle. ...
Earth’s core consists of a solid iron-nickel ball rotating within a layer of liquid metal. But that ball may not be as simple as it seems: new research suggests the inner core contains its own inner core. If so, this so-called innermost inner core may record an early phase inEarth’...
Earth’s coreis pretty dynamic. Its spinspeeds up and slows downbased on how its two primary layers are behaving. As we improve the waveform techniques used to study the deepest layer thousands of feet below the surface, our understanding of it continues to evolve. Now, scientists believe tha...
Studying Earth’s core presents a unique challenge for scientists. Obviously, sending a field team to the core is out of the question, so there’s no hope of getting samples and much of the time, it can be hard to observe changes from the surface, especially given that the crust makes ...
“This inner core is like a time capsule of Earth’s evolutionary history – it’s a fossilized record that serves as a gateway into the events of our planet’s past. Events that happened on Earth hundreds of millions to billions of years ago,” he said. ...
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 kilometers (3,100 miles) below the surface we live on, this "planet with...
Despite considerable progress in seismology, mineral physics, geodynamics, paleomagnetism, and mathematical geophysics, Earth’s inner core structure and evolution remain enigmatic. One of the most significant issues is its thermal history and the curren