Sentences with phrase «liquid iron churns»

Not exact matches

The discovery is vexing: If liquid iron conducts heat into the mantle at such a high rate, there wouldn't be enough heat left in the outer core to churn its ocean of liquid iron.

The Outer Core Made of molten iron, nickel, and other ingredients yet to be determined, the churning liquid outer core may have the viscosity of water, streaming at possibly one to several miles per week with the turbulence of a gargantuan, slow - moving washing machine.

The sun spews energetic particles that can pry life - sustaining molecules from our atmosphere, but Earth's magnetic shield, which originates from the planet's hot core of churning, liquid iron, shoos those particles away.

Together with Eric Blackman, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester, and Michael Watkeys, a geologist at the University of KwaZulu - Natal in South Africa, Tarduno hypothesizes that the region — which is referred to as a Large Low Shear Velocity Province (LLSVP)-- affects the direction of the churning liquid iron that generates Earth's magnetic field.