NASA study uncovers three factors responsible for Earth's irregular spin

The Earth's spin isn't as consistent as it may seem. In fact, it naturally drifts and wobbles on its axis over time, and that's generally chalked up to the way mass is distributed and redistributed across the planet's surface. Now, NASA scientists studying data gathered across the entire 20th century have identified three broad processes that play a part.

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Category: Environment

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• Climate Change
• Earth
• Environment
• glacier
• Greenland
• JPL
• NASA
• Planet

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