How Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin & now it rotates in reverse condition!
ROYALSMM YT How Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin & now it rotates in reverse. images from google SUBSCRIBE Earth’s inner core is made mostly of solid iron and can rotate separately from the outer parts of the planet. Credit: Johan Swanepoel/SPL SUBSCRIBE Thousands of kilometers beneath your feet, Earth’s interior might be doing something very weird. Many scientists think that the inner core spins faster than the rest of the planet — but sometime in the past decade, according to a study, it apparently stopped doing so. “We were quite surprised,” said Yi Yang and Xiaodong Song, seismologists at Peking University in Beijing who reported the findings today in Nature Geoscience 1 . The results could help to shine a light on the many mysteries of the deep Earth, including what part the inner core plays in maintaining the planet’s magnetic field and in affecting the speed of the whole planet’s rotation — and thus the length of a day. But they are just the latest ins...