Sentences with phrase «metallic hydrogen layer»
The findings also challenge models of the planet's interior, pointing to a core that is not solid like Earth's, but is instead «fuzzy» and dilutely mingled with an overlying metallic hydrogen layer.
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«We characterized the field to estimate the depth of the dynamo region, suggesting that it may occur in a molecular hydrogen layer above the pressure - induced transition to the metallic state.»
That could be a sign that the dynamo driving it may originate higher up in Jupiter's interior, perhaps from that same layer of metallic hydrogen.