{"id":156189,"date":"2023-01-24T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/earths-inner-core-may-have-started-spinning-other-way-study"},"modified":"2023-01-24T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T03:28:00","slug":"earths-inner-core-may-have-started-spinning-other-way-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/earths-inner-core-may-have-started-spinning-other-way-study","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s inner core may have started spinning other way: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-inner-core-may-have-started-spinning-other-way-study3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Far below our feet, a giant may have started moving against us.<\/p>\n<p>Earth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/inner+core\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">inner core<\/a>, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, research suggested on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) below the surface we live on, this \u201cplanet within the planet\u201d can spin independently because it floats in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/liquid+metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">liquid metal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/outer+core\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">outer core<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far below our feet, a giant may have started moving against us. Earth\u2019s inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, research suggested on Monday. Roughly 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) below the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}