Basically, the motion of the electrically conducting iron in the presence of the Earth's magnetic field induces electric currents.A New Look On the Nature of the Earths Magnetic Field. This sets up a process that is a bit like a naturally occurring electrical generator, where the convective kinetic energy is converted to electrical and magnetic energy. Earths magnetic field, which shields the planet from most high-energy solar radiation, could be 4.2 billion.The Earth's outer core is in a state of turbulent convection as the result of radioactive heating and chemical differentiation. Generated by powerful, dynamic forces at the center of our world, our magnetosphere shields us from erosion of our atmosphere by the solar wind, particle radiation from coronal mass ejections (eruptions of large clouds of energetic, magnetized plasma from the Sun’s corona into space), and from cosmic rays from deep space.Artist's illustration of two massive objects colliding.by Timothy Oleson Tuesday, December 15, 2015. Earth is surrounded by an immense magnetic field, called the magnetosphere.
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New research focuses on the preponderance of hit-and-run collisions in giant impacts, and shows that proto-Earth would have served as a 'vanguard', slowing down planet-sized bodies in hit-and-runs. According to 'late stage accretion' theory, Mars and Mercury (front left and right) are what's left of an original population of colliding embryos, and Venus and Earth grew in a series of giant impacts. More likely it took two collisions in a row."The terrestrial planets of the inner solar system, shown to scale. "To think of giant impacts, for instance the formation of the moon, as a singular event is probably wrong. This means that for two planets to merge, you usually first have to slow them down in a hit-and-run collision," Asphaug said.
The closer a planet is to the sun, the stronger the gravitation experienced by planets. Visitors toss a coin into a funnel-shaped gravity well, and then watch their cash complete several orbits before it drops into the center hole. In this paper, led by Alexandre Emsenhuber, who did this work during a postdoctoral fellowship in Asphaug's lab and is now at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, the young Earth would have served to slow down interloping planetary bodies, making them ultimately more likely to collide with and stick to Venus."We think that during solar system formation, the early Earth acted like a vanguard for Venus," Emsenhuber said.The solar system is what scientists call a gravity well, the concept behind a popular attraction at science exhibits.
This leads to a difference between the two similar-sized planets that conventional theories cannot explain, the authors argue."The prevailing idea has been that it doesn't really matter if planets collide and don't merge right away, because they are going to run into each other again at some point and merge then," Emsenhuber said. You generally only go downstairs, toward Venus, and an impactor that collides with Venus is pretty happy staying in the inner solar system, so at some point it is going to hit Venus again."Earth has no such vanguard to slow down its interloping planets. "Because of that, the body cannot leave the inner solar system anymore. "More likely than not, a planet that bounces off of Earth is going to hit Venus and merge with it."Emsenhuber uses the analogy of a ball bouncing down a staircase to illustrate the idea of what drives the vanguard effect: A body coming in from the outer solar system is like a ball bouncing down a set of stairs, with each bounce representing a collision with another body."Along the way, the ball loses energy, and you'll find it will always bounce downstairs, never upstairs," he said. As a result, the closer an object ventures to the sun, the more likely it is to stay there.So when an interloping planet hit the Earth, it was less likely to stick to Earth, and instead more likely to end up at Venus, Asphaug explained."The Earth acts as a shield, providing a first stop against these impacting planets," he said.
According to a new theory, there were two giant impacts in a row, separated by about 1 million years, involving a Mars-sized 'Theia' and proto-Earth. It's easier to go from Earth to Venus than the other way around."The moon is thought to be the aftermath of a giant impact. We find they end up more frequently becoming part of Venus, instead of returning back to Earth.
In the second paper, the authors propose and demonstrate their hit-and-run-return scenario for the moon's formation, recognizing the primary problems with the standard giant impact model."The standard model for the moon requires a very slow collision, relatively speaking," Asphaug said, "and it creates a moon that is composed mostly of the impacting planet, not the proto-Earth, which is a major problem since the moon has an isotopic chemistry almost identical to Earth."In the team's new scenario, a roughly Mars-sized protoplanet hits the Earth, as in the standard model, but is a bit faster so it keeps going. The team then used these data to rapidly compute the orbital evolution, including hit-and-run and merging collisions, to simulate terrestrial planet formation over the course of 100 million years. Emsenhuber/University of Bern/University of MunichTo track all these planetary orbits and collisions, and ultimately their mergers, the team used machine learning to obtain predictive models from 3D simulations of giant impacts. Theia (or most of it) barely escapes, so a follow-on collision is likely.A. A cut-away view shows the iron cores.
But actually, with Earth in this vanguard role, it makes it actually more likely for Venus to accrete outer solar system material," Asphaug said.The co-authors on the two papers are Saverio Cambioni and Stephen R. In short, Venus could be composed of material that was harder for the Earth to get ahold of."You would think that Earth is made up more of material from the outer system because it is closer to the outer solar system than Venus. "Collisions into the Earth that were more oblique and higher velocity would have preferentially ended up on Venus."This would create a bias in which, for example, protoplanets from the outer solar system, at higher velocity, would have preferentially accreted to Venus instead of Earth. For example, we don't understand how Earth ended up with a magnetic field that is much stronger than that of Venus, or why Venus has no moon.Their research indicates systematic differences in dynamics and composition, according to Asphaug."In our view, Earth would have accreted most of its material from collisions that were head-on hits, or else slower than those experienced by Venus," he said.
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