{"id":204206,"date":"2025-01-21T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/researchers-discover-pieces-of-an-ancient-planet-buried-deep-within-the-earth"},"modified":"2025-01-21T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:26:59","slug":"researchers-discover-pieces-of-an-ancient-planet-buried-deep-within-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/researchers-discover-pieces-of-an-ancient-planet-buried-deep-within-the-earth","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover pieces of an ancient planet buried deep within the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k4dQW_fUgik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seismic imaging has revealed two colossal regions deep within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrighterside.news\/post\/first-ever-rocks-recovered-from-the-earths-mantle-could-reveal-secrets-of-earths-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Earth\u2019s mantle<\/a> that could reshape our understanding of the planet\u2019s composition and history. These continent-sized anomalies, known as large low-velocity provinces (LLVPs), lie near the core, beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>LLVPs are notable for their unusual makeup and their ability to slow seismic waves, making them mysterious features of Earth\u2019s interior.<\/p>\n<p>Their origins have long baffled geologists, but a groundbreaking study has introduced a bold hypothesis: these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrighterside.news\/post\/new-research-points-to-an-undiscovered-earth-like-planet-in-our-solar-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subterranean giants<\/a> might be remnants of Theia, a lost planet that collided with Earth billions of years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seismic imaging has revealed two colossal regions deep within Earth\u2019s mantle that could reshape our understanding of the planet\u2019s composition and history. These continent-sized anomalies, known as large low-velocity provinces (LLVPs), lie near the core, beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. LLVPs are notable for their unusual makeup and their ability to slow seismic waves, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204206","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=204206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}