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That sloshing around can influence the speed of the Earth’s spin, ABC reported. Some scientists think this could be the beginning of a new period of shorter days, Interesting Engineering reported.
Waves were observed to travel faster between north and south than along the equatorial plane. A model for the inner core with uniform anisotropy had a direction of fastest travel tilted at an angle 10° from the spin axis of the Earth. [15] Since then, the model for the anisotropy has become more complex. The top 100 kilometers are isotropic.
Just as the Earth spins, the planet’s inner core turns, though not necessarily at the same speed, and some research indicates the core moves faster, according to the National Science Foundation.
Earth's rotation is slowing slightly with time; thus, a day was shorter in the past. This is due to the tidal effects the Moon has on Earth's rotation. Atomic clocks show that the modern day is longer by about 1.7 milliseconds than a century ago, [1] slowly increasing the rate at which UTC is adjusted by leap seconds.
This process alone leads to an increase of the rotation rate (phenomenon of a spinning figure skater who spins ever faster as they retract their arms). From the observed change in the moment of inertia the acceleration of rotation can be computed: the average value over the historical period must have been about −0.6 ms/century.
This minuscule change in time means we might need to consider a negative leap second.
Atmospheric super-rotation is a phenomenon where a planet's atmosphere rotates faster than the planet itself. This behavior is observed in the atmospheres of Venus, Titan, Jupiter, and Saturn. Venus exhibits the most extreme super-rotation, with its atmosphere circling the planet in four Earth days, much faster than the planet's own rotation of ...
Earth rotates on its axis at about 1,000 miles per hour. That’s the short answer, but it’s not the whole story.