Articles for tag: Earth Rotation, Gravitational Forces, Length of Day, Moon Gravity, planetary science, Timekeeping

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What Lies at Mars Heart? A Stinky Surprise of Rotten Eggs

Suhail Ahmed

Mars’s rust-colored desserts, towering volcanoes, and tantalizing prospect of ancient life have enthralled people for millennia. Benevolent on its surface, though, lurks a far stranger secret rife with rotten eggs. Recent discoveries in science imply that the Martian core is not only an iron and nickel molten ball like that of Earth. Rather, it might ...