A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...
(High pressures within the Earth cause material to freeze at high temperatures.) This heat drives convection cells within the liquid core, which keeps the liquid metal moving through the magnetic ...
NASA spotted a circle of clouds over the Pacific Ocean, and the image is still breathtaking over 10 years later.
The research team found that when placed in laboratory dishes after returning to Earth, these cells demonstrated their ... because there’s no convection in microgravity—in other words, things ...
directly generate long-lived continental scale upper mantle convection cells, and these rift-initiated convective systems have a profound effect on Earth’s surface topography, erosion ...