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Earth’s Rotation Just Hit a New Record— Here’s What That Means for UsEarth is spinning faster than ever, and the result is a shortening of the length of our days. Since 2020, each year has brought records for the shortest day ever, with Earth’s spin accelerating by ...
Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressively longer as a result. While Earth's slowdown is not ...
However, recently, the Earth has been bucking this trend due to the rotation of the planet’s liquid outer core, which is actually speeding things up.
The days are indeed getting shorter: Earth had its shortest day ever recorded on June 29, with the day ending 1.59 milliseconds sooner than usual, according to the National Physical Laboratory in ...
Their model and their observations show that climate change and global warming will have a greater influence on the Earth's rotational speed than the effect of the moon, which has determined the ...
Before we start leveraging the Earth’s rotation as a source of energy, however, another lab will need to reproduce these results.
Is Earth spinning faster? On June 29, 2022 our planet set a new record for its shortest day. getty Our planet set a record for completing one rotation faster than scientists had ever previously ...
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