Sentences with phrase «core of liquid metal»

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Scientists had recently discovered that every 200,000 years, on average, churning in the hot liquid metal of Earth's outer core causes the planet's whole magnetic field to flip.

The discovery of this new component of the magnetic field may explain why in the case of Venus, Earth's «twin» planet, the liquid metal core does not produce a magnetic field.

This ocean of liquid metal, the outer core, surrounds the inner core, which is made of solid metal.

Jupiter does not have a molten metal core; instead, its magnetic field is created by a core of compressed liquid metallic hydrogen.

The Earth's core consists mostly of a huge ball of liquid metal lying at 3000 km beneath its surface, surrounded by a mantle of hot rock.

It is widely accepted that the Earth's inner core formed about a billion years ago when a solid, super-hot iron nugget spontaneously began to crystallize inside a 4,200 - mile - wide ball of liquid metal at the planet's center.

Alternatively, something different has to be added to the liquid metal of the core - at the center of the planet - that substantially reduces the amount of required supercooling.

The motion of the liquid metals in the moon's core would have created a strong magnetic field.