600 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the temperature that would allow rocks to melt which would lead into the second layer of the earth. (continued...)
This planet is the closest one to our sun. Its temperature can drop to 300 degrees below Fahrenheit or soar to 800 degrees in areas of direct sunlight. Venus This second planet from our sun has a thick, yellow-colored atmosphere (the color is due to its sulfuric acid content) which makes...
The team estimated that iron's strength is around 1 GPa at the pressure and temperature of the Earth's core. This low value has implications for how the material in the core deforms, or "creeps," over time. Previous models assumed that this creep was a very slow process, based mostly ...
Venus:Venus was once considered a twin planet to Earth, until astronomers discovered its surface is at a lead-melting temperature of 900 degrees Fahrenheit (480 degrees Celsius). The planet is also a slow rotator, with a 243-day long Venusian day and an orbit around the sun at 225 days. ...
Under the liquid-metal outer layer of theEarth's coreis a solid ball of superhot iron and nickel alloy about 760 miles (1,220 kilometers) in diameter. Scientists recently discovered the inner core is, at 10,800 degrees Fahrenheit (6,000 degrees Celsius),as hot as the surface of the sun...
"At the pressures of the core, it would have to cool 1,000 degrees Kelvin [1,000 degrees C or 1,800 degrees F] or more below the melting temperature in order to crystallize spontaneously from pure liquid," Hauck told Live Science. "And that's a lot of cooling, especially since at ...