1. Earth has an actively convecting dense metallic core that produces and sustains a strong magnetic field. 2. At even greater depths, the rock may give way to a metallic core. 3. Different instruments will search for evidence of a metallic core, the presence of seismic activity and a magnetic field. 4. Instruments aboard the Pathfinder station have detected evidence of a magnetic field generated within the planet, and signs that Mars contains a central metallic core. 5. The implication is that Ganymede has a molten metallic core. 6. The metallic core of the body is too far from Galileo to produce magnetic fields the satellite could detect, Schubert said. 7. --The presence of metallic cores inside Io, Ganymede and Europa, and the curious lack of a similar core inside Callisto. 8. It has already allowed them to establish beyond a doubt that Io is made of a huge metallic core. |