{"id":130502,"date":"2021-11-12T22:25:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T06:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-intense-pressurized-conditions-of-earths-outer-core-have-been-recreated-in-a-lab"},"modified":"2021-11-12T22:25:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T06:25:33","slug":"the-intense-pressurized-conditions-of-earths-outer-core-have-been-recreated-in-a-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-intense-pressurized-conditions-of-earths-outer-core-have-been-recreated-in-a-lab","title":{"rendered":"The Intense Pressurized Conditions of Earth\u2019s Outer Core Have Been Recreated in a Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-intense-pressurized-conditions-of-earths-outer-core-have-been-recreated-in-a-lab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of kilometers under Earth\u2019s surface, under crushing pressures and scorching temperatures, the core of the planet can be found. There, an inner core consisting of a solid ball of nickel and iron is super-rotating inside the outer core, where the iron and nickel are fluid.<\/p>\n<p>The conditions of this outer core have now been recreated in a lab, by a team led by physicist S\u00e9bastien Merkel of the University of Lille in France \u2013 in such a way that scientists have been able to observe the structural deformation of iron.<\/p>\n<p>This not only has implications for understanding our own planet, but can help us to better understand what happens when chunks of iron collide in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of kilometers under Earth\u2019s surface, under crushing pressures and scorching temperatures, the core of the planet can be found. There, an inner core consisting of a solid ball of nickel and iron is super-rotating inside the outer core, where the iron and nickel are fluid. The conditions of this outer core have now been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130502","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}