{"id":191428,"date":"2024-06-18T20:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T01:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-uncover-first-building-block-in-super-earth-formation"},"modified":"2024-06-18T20:25:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T01:25:53","slug":"scientists-uncover-first-building-block-in-super-earth-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-uncover-first-building-block-in-super-earth-formation","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Uncover First Building Block in Super-Earth Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-uncover-first-building-block-in-super-earth-formation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new study reveals that magnesium oxide, a key mineral in planet formation, might be the first to solidify in developing \u201csuper-Earth\u201d exoplanets, with its behavior under extreme conditions significantly influencing planetary development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have for the first time observed how atoms in magnesium oxide morph and melt under ultra-harsh conditions, providing new insights into this key mineral within Earth\u2019s mantle that is known to influence planet formation.<\/p>\n<p>High-energy laser experiments\u2014which subjected tiny crystals of the mineral to the type of heat and pressure found deep inside a rocky planet\u2019s mantle\u2014suggest the compound could be the earliest mineral to solidify out of magma oceans in forming \u201csuper-Earth\u201d exoplanets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals that magnesium oxide, a key mineral in planet formation, might be the first to solidify in developing \u201csuper-Earth\u201d exoplanets, with its behavior under extreme conditions significantly influencing planetary development. Scientists have for the first time observed how atoms in magnesium oxide morph and melt under ultra-harsh conditions, providing new insights into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191428","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=191428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}