{"id":2698,"date":"2016-12-30T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T09:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2016-12-26T17:36:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T09:36:53","slug":"iron-jet-stream-detected-in-earths-outer-core-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/iron-jet-stream-detected-in-earths-outer-core-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron ‘jet stream’ detected in Earth’s outer core – BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Scientists say Earth’s outer core contains a kind of “jet stream” – a fast-flowing river of liquid iron that is surging westwards under Alaska and Siberia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scientists say they have identified a remarkable new feature in Earth\u2019s molten outer core.<\/p>\n

They describe it as a kind of “jet stream” – a fast-flowing river of liquid iron that is surging westwards under Alaska and Siberia.<\/p>\n

The moving mass of metal has been inferred from measurements made by Europe\u2019s Swarm satellites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This trio of spacecraft are currently mapping Earth’s magnetic field to try to understand its fundamental workings.<\/p>\n

The scientists say the jet is the best explanation for the patches of concentrated field strength that the satellites observe in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n

“This jet of liquid iron is moving at about fifty kilometres per year,” explained Dr Chris Finlay from the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space).<\/p>\n

\u201cThat might not sound like a lot to you on Earth’s surface, but you have to remember this a very dense liquid metal and it takes a huge amount of energy to move this thing around and that’s probably the fastest motion we have anywhere within the solid Earth,\u201d he told BBC News.<\/p>\n

Source: Iron ‘jet stream’ detected in Earth’s outer core – BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists say Earth’s outer core contains a kind of “jet stream” – a fast-flowing river of liquid iron that is surging westwards under Alaska and Siberia. Scientists say they have identified a remarkable new feature in Earth\u2019s molten outer core. They describe it as a kind of “jet stream” – a fast-flowing river of liquid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[555,38],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-jet-stream","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}