{"id":130445,"date":"2021-11-11T20:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T04:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/researchers-recreate-deep-earth-conditions-to-see-how-iron-copes-with-extreme-stress"},"modified":"2021-11-11T20:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T04:24:28","slug":"researchers-recreate-deep-earth-conditions-to-see-how-iron-copes-with-extreme-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/researchers-recreate-deep-earth-conditions-to-see-how-iron-copes-with-extreme-stress","title":{"rendered":"Researchers recreate deep-Earth conditions to see how iron copes with extreme stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-recreate-deep-earth-conditions-to-see-how-iron-copes-with-extreme-stress2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Far below you lies a sphere of solid iron and nickel about as wide as the broadest part of Texas: the Earth\u2019s inner core. The metal at the inner core is under pressure about 360 million times higher than we experience in our everyday lives and temperatures approximately as hot as the Sun\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>Earth\u2019s planetary core is thankfully intact. But in space, similar cores can collide with other objects, causing the crystalline materials of the core to deform rapidly. Some asteroids in our solar system are massive iron objects that scientists suspect are the remnants of planetary cores after catastrophic impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring what happens during the collision of celestial bodies or at the Earth\u2019s core is obviously not very practical. As such, much of our understanding of planetary cores is based on experimental studies of metals at less <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/extreme+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">extreme temperatures<\/a> and pressures. But researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have now observed for the first time how iron\u2019s atomic structure deforms to accommodate the stress from the pressures and temperatures that occur just outside of the inner core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far below you lies a sphere of solid iron and nickel about as wide as the broadest part of Texas: the Earth\u2019s inner core. The metal at the inner core is under pressure about 360 million times higher than we experience in our everyday lives and temperatures approximately as hot as the Sun\u2019s surface. Earth\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}