{"id":134179,"date":"2022-01-17T12:44:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T20:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/the-earths-core-might-be-cooling-much-faster-than-we-previously-thought"},"modified":"2022-01-17T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T20:44:25","slug":"the-earths-core-might-be-cooling-much-faster-than-we-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/the-earths-core-might-be-cooling-much-faster-than-we-previously-thought","title":{"rendered":"The Earth\u2019s Core Might Be Cooling Much Faster Than We Previously Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-earths-core-might-be-cooling-much-faster-than-we-previously-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results could give us a new perspective on the evolution of the Earth\u2019s dynamics,\u201d said Motohiko Murakami, a corresponding author of the study explained in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ethz.ch\/de\/news-und-veranstaltungen\/eth-news\/news\/2022\/01\/erdinneres-kuehlt-schneller-ab-als-erwartet.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a press statement<\/a>. \u201cThey suggest that Earth, like the other rocky planets Mercury and Mars, is cooling and becoming inactive much faster than expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>The Earth will cool down at an increasingly fast pace<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The scientists discovered that bridgmanite was roughly 1.5 times better at conducting heat than previously estimated. This means that heat must transfer more easily from the core to the mantle than had been previously believed. This faster transfer equals a higher cooling rate, meaning the Earth\u2019s core will cool down faster than once thought. What\u2019s more, as it cools bridgmanite turns into a mineral called post-perovskite, which conducts heat at an even faster rate. So the inner Earth could start to cool at an increasingly accelerated rate once bridgmanite starts forming into post-perovskite, a crystal structure following the formula ABX\u2083.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur results could give us a new perspective on the evolution of the Earth\u2019s dynamics,\u201d said Motohiko Murakami, a corresponding author of the study explained in a press statement. \u201cThey suggest that Earth, like the other rocky planets Mercury and Mars, is cooling and becoming inactive much faster than expected.\u201d The Earth will cool down [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134179","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}