{"id":195601,"date":"2024-09-03T04:25:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/mysterious-donut-structure-found-hidden-inside-earths-core"},"modified":"2024-09-03T04:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:25:46","slug":"mysterious-donut-structure-found-hidden-inside-earths-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/mysterious-donut-structure-found-hidden-inside-earths-core","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious \u2018Donut\u2019 Structure Found Hidden Inside Earth\u2019s Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-donut-structure-found-hidden-inside-earths-core2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 2,890 kilometres beneath our feet lies a gigantic ball of liquid metal: our planet\u2019s core. Scientists like me use the seismic waves created by earthquakes as a kind of ultrasound to \u201csee\u201d the shape and structure of the core.<\/p>\n<p>Using a new way of studying these waves, my colleague Xiaolong Ma and I have made a surprising discovery: there is a large donut-shaped region of the core around the Equator, a few hundred kilometres thick, where seismic waves travel about 2% slower than in the rest of the core.<\/p>\n<p>We think this region contains more lighter elements such as silicon and oxygen, and may play a crucial role in the vast currents of liquid metal running through the core that generate Earth\u2019s magnetic field. Our results are <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.adn5562\">published today in Science Advances<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 2,890 kilometres beneath our feet lies a gigantic ball of liquid metal: our planet\u2019s core. Scientists like me use the seismic waves created by earthquakes as a kind of ultrasound to \u201csee\u201d the shape and structure of the core. Using a new way of studying these waves, my colleague Xiaolong Ma and I have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195601","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}