CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists revealed Wednesday that Mars’ innermost core appears to be a solid hunk of metal just like Earth’s. The Chinese-led research team based their findings on seismic ...
A key property of Earth is that its core has a solid center and liquid outer core. Convection within the liquid layer creates a dynamo, producing the magnetic field. The field deflects charged ...
The solid inner core (610 km radius) found by Huixing Bi and colleagues is hugely significant. The very presence of a solid inner core shows that crystallization and solidification is taking place as ...