News tagged with earths core
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Planetary magnetic fields: The hunt for better models
Some three thousand kilometers below the surface of the Earth and with temperatures reaching those at the surface of the sun, the core of our home planet is no more within our physical reach today than it ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2010 |
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Scientists probe Earth's core
We know more about distant galaxies than we do about the interior of our own planet. However, by observing distant earthquakes, researchers at the University of Calgary have revealed new clues about the top ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Lopsided Growth at the Earth's Core
What has twisted the Earth’s core so asymmetrically out of shape? That question has been a long-standing mystery for scientists, but two new studies are shining some light on the geodynamic processes that ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 21, 2010 |
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Geologist discovers pattern in Earth's long-term climate record
In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of the Earth's orbital cycle to changes in the Earth's climate. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 06, 2010 |
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As the World Churns
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Terra firma." It's Latin for "solid Earth." Most of the time, at least from our perspective here on the ground, Earth seems to be just that: solid. Yet the Earth beneath our feet is actually ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 28, 2009 |
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From greenhouse to icehouse -- reconstructing the environment of the Voring Plateau
The analysis of microfossils found in ocean sediment cores is illuminating the environmental conditions that prevailed at high latitudes during a critical period of Earth history.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Join STEREO and Explore Gravitational 'Parking Lots' That May Hold Secret of Moon's Origin
Two places on opposite sides of Earth may hold the secret to how the moon was born. NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft are about to enter these zones, known as the L4 and ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Riding -- and reading -- the Earth tide
(PhysOrg.com) -- Once a day, Miaki Ishii rides the Earth tide, rising slowly — along with her desk, chair, and entire office — 20 to 30 centimeters before sinking back again.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Scientists glean new insights into convection in planets and stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by UCLA planetary scientists and their colleagues in Germany overturns a longstanding scientific tenet and provides new insights into how convection controls much of what we observe ...
Jan 19, 2009 |
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