New research, published in ‘Nature Geoscience,’ indicates the Earth’s inner core temporarily stopped spinning around 2009 and started reversing rotation.
PARIS Far below our feet, a giant may have started moving against us. 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 kilometres below the surface we live on, this “planet within the planet” can spin independently
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.