🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE The thought experiment reveals just how important our planet’s rotation really is.
in driving rainfall and temperatures around the globe. Any changes to air currents could result in deserts blooming where forests currently stand, for example, or frozen tundra becoming habitable. We’re already seeing something similar, albeit on a much smaller scale, as climate changeAn Earth with no spin would also mean the end of hurricanes. The massive rotating storms arethat derive from the planet’s rotation.
But a motionless planet would also likely mean the end of our magnetic field. Though scientists are still unclear on the exact mechanisms, it’s thought that the magnetic field is created by the. Scientists call this a dynamo, and the end result is a web of invisible magnetic field lines arcing around the planet. The effects of losing that field would be far worse than just no longer being able to navigate by compass.
As far as we know, there aren’t any planets out there that don’t rotate at all. The processes that form planets and other celestial bodies naturally result in rotation, meaning that all worlds spin from the outset. But there are some planets thatThese are worlds that show the same face to their star at all times, resulting in permanent night and day sides.between planets and their stars can gradually slow a planet’s rotation rate down until it exactly matches its orbital period.
The moon is a good example of tidal locking. We only see one side of the moon, no matter where it is in the sky or what phase it’s in, because it’s tidally locked to the Earth. The same situation likely occurs on many exoplanets, especially those close to their stars where the gravitational pull is stronger.
Though these planets might seem like extreme places — frozen on one side, baked on the other — some scientists have suggested
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