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Earth’s core is speeding up and slowing down
Earth’s core is speeding up and slowing down,You’d think, of all the planets in the Universe, the one we’d know best is the one we live on. But that’s actually part of the problem: Living on it. Earth has 500 million square kilometers of surface area, but a volume of a trillion cubic kilometers. Volume wins, and worse, all that stuff is way down deep inside the planet where we cannot possibly reach it to study.

Earth’s core is speeding up and slowing down

You’d think, of all the planets in the Universe, the one we’d know best is the one we live on. But that’s actually part of the problem: Living on it. Earth has 500 million square kilometers of surface area, but a volume of a trillion cubic kilometers. Volume wins, and worse, all that stuff is way down deep inside the planet where we cannot possibly reach it to study.