Study suggests Earth's inner core may have onion-like layered structure

An international research team may have found an explanation for seismic anomalies, the noticeable deviations in the behavior ...
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An onion core: Researchers find hints of a multilayered centre of the Earth

A research team led by the University of Münster has discovered new evidence of a layered structure in the Earth’s inner core ...
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Earth’s core may exist in a superionic state driving the planet’s magnetic behaviour

Scientists have discovered that Earth’s inner core may exist in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow like liquid ...
IFLScience

Marsquakes Reveal A Solid Inner Core In The Red Planet

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Nature

Earth's Inner Core Dynamics and Structure

The Earth’s inner core, a solid sphere predominantly composed of iron and nickel, occupies a central role in our planet’s evolution and geodynamo processes. Although hidden beneath thousands of ...
Los Angeles Times

Marsquakes indicate a solid core for the red planet, just like Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists revealed this week that Mars’ innermost core appears to be a solid hunk of metal just like Earth’s. The Chinese-led research team based their findings on seismic ...
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Atomic Simulations Show How Earth's Core Solidified

What is the speed and timing of the Earth’s inner core cooling? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the composition ...
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This Is The Reason Why Earth's Core Exists, And It's More Interesting Than You Might Think

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Phys.org

Mars has a solid core, resolving a longstanding planetary mystery, according to new study

The solid inner core (610 km radius) found by Huixing Bi and colleagues is hugely significant. The very presence of a solid inner core shows that crystallization and solidification is taking place as ...