Characteristics Of Planets | Diving Into Earth's Interior Makeup With Dr. Sabine Stanley
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
What do we know about what's happening deep inside Earth, and why does it matter? Dr. Sabine Stanley, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, joins the podcast to enlighten us.
By focusing on planetary magnetic fields, dynamo theory, and other geophysical methods, Dr. Stanley is on a mission to uncover the deep interior of planets. From extrasolar worlds to planets within our own solar system, this research reveals many interesting facts about our universe – and we've only scratched the surface…
In this discussion, we explore:
- What the interior of our Earth is made up of.
- Why it's so hard to study the interior of rocky planets.
- What "mantle convection" is, and the planetary functions it is responsible for.
- The types of chemicals that are found beneath Earth's surface.
You can learn more about Dr. Stanley here, and purchase her latest book, What's Hidden Inside Planets?, here!
Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
Use promo code HPLAN for 30% off What's Hidden Inside Planets? when you order from Hopkins Press at press.jhu.edu
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| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, |
| 0:41.0 | now part of the Finding Genius Foundation. |
| 0:43.2 | My guest today is Dr. Sabina Stanley. |
| 0:45.2 | She's a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Planetary Physics at Johns Hopkins University, and |
| 0:50.0 | there's a book that she's written that's coming out called What's Inside or |
| 0:53.2 | what's hidden inside planets sounds like a really interesting topic so |
| 0:56.9 | Sabino welcome thank you for coming thank you so much I'm excited to be here |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah, tell me a bit about your background and then let's talk about your book and your |
| 1:03.7 | current projects. |
| 1:04.7 | Sure, so I'm a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University. |
| 1:08.5 | I like to study what goes on deep inside planets, especially how they create their magnetic fields. I grew up in |
| 1:14.8 | northern Ontario and Canada. I actually grew up in an impact crater which is kind of |
| 1:20.0 | interesting at the town called Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and the impact crater |
| 1:24.1 | essentially was created about 1.8 billion years ago when a giant meteor hit the |
| 1:29.1 | surface of the planet, creating a huge hole that got filled with molten material from the interior. |
| 1:34.7 | So the book, What's Inside Planets, is kind of related to that, right? |
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