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On Nov 16, 1:00 am, Yousuf Khan wrote:
granite stone wrote: I read an article that the moon's force on the mantle might give us magma and magma is not chemical. In the same way some of the larger planets may have a pull on our sun's mantle giving us solar radiation. Since the sun spins every 6 days the spin travels through the pull on the sun's mantle, energy, huge amounts of it, is given off. If all stars are suns, you could say each star has planet pulling on each sun's mantle. Google Tidal Forces Io and lots come up from NASA. Uh, where do I start? First the Moon and Earth's mantle. What you're talking about is tidal heating. Typically tidal heating is more pronounced when a larger body tugs on a smaller body, with a big size ratio between them. Your example of the tidal forces on Saturn's moon, Io, is an example of that. Saturn pulls on Io's crust and mantle and heats it up, but Io's tidal forces on Saturn are puny by comparison. Similarly the Moon's tidal forces on Earth are puny, and don't cause much heating in its mantle or anywhere else. Earth's tidal forces on the Moon are much more substantial, but still not substantial enough to create volcanism on the Moon. Most of Earth's heating comes internally from its own nuclear fission core. Earth's iron core is suffused with large quantities of uranium. The Sun doesn't have a mantle. A mantle is a layer within a solid planet between the crust and the core of that planet. What one might call a mantle for the Sun would be its convection layer. The Sun doesn't have a crust or a mantle, but it does have a core. The core of the Sun is where nuclear fusion takes place, just like the core of the Earth is where nuclear fission takes place. The nuclear fuel at the core is the main source of heat for stars and planets. Yousuf Khan The reason volcanism is not on the moon is that the moon does not rotate with reference to earth. And it would have to rotate at a high speed too. |
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