{"id":228104,"date":"2025-12-31T01:26:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/whats-inside-mexicos-popocatepetl-volcano-scientists-obtain-first-3d-images"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:26:56","slug":"whats-inside-mexicos-popocatepetl-volcano-scientists-obtain-first-3d-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/whats-inside-mexicos-popocatepetl-volcano-scientists-obtain-first-3d-images","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s inside Mexico\u2019s Popocat\u00e9petl volcano? Scientists obtain first 3D images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whats-inside-mexicos-popocatepetl-volcano-scientists-obtain-first-3d-images2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico\u2019s Popocat\u00e9petl volcano, one of the world\u2019s most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure out what is happening under the crater.<\/p>\n<p>For five years, the group from Mexico\u2019s National Autonomous University has climbed the volcano with kilos of equipment, risked data loss due to bad weather or a volcanic explosion and used artificial intelligence to analyze the seismic data. Now, the team has created the first three-dimensional image of the 17,883-foot (5,452-meter) volcano\u2019s interior, which tells them where the magma accumulates and will help them better understand its activity, and, eventually, help authorities better react to eruptions.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Cal\u00f2, professor in the UNAM\u2019s Geophysics Institute\u2019s vulcanology department and the project leader, invited The Associated Press to accompany the team on its most recent expedition, the last before its research on the volcano will be published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico\u2019s Popocat\u00e9petl volcano, one of the world\u2019s most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure out what is happening under the crater. For five years, the group from Mexico\u2019s National Autonomous University has climbed the volcano with kilos [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228104","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=228104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}