{"id":242063,"date":"2026-08-02T08:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/earths-inner-core-could-be-full-of-extreme-hydrogen-unlike-anything-on-the-surface"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:17:18","slug":"earths-inner-core-could-be-full-of-extreme-hydrogen-unlike-anything-on-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/earths-inner-core-could-be-full-of-extreme-hydrogen-unlike-anything-on-the-surface","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s Inner Core Could Be Full Of Extreme Hydrogen Unlike Anything on The Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-inner-core-could-be-full-of-extreme-hydrogen-unlike-anything-on-the-surface.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Earth is akin to a rocky, molten-in-the-middle nesting doll \u2013 or perhaps a rotting, soft-centered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/earths-core-seems-to-be-wrapped-in-layers-like-an-onion-study-finds\">onion<\/a>, though the latter analogy affords our majestic planet much less dignity.<\/p>\n<p>Although only several handfuls (39 fingers\u2019 worth, to be exact) of people have alighted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Challenger_Deep\">ocean\u2019s deepest depths<\/a> or upon the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/moon\/moon-walkers\/\">surface of the Moon<\/a>, there\u2019s one relatively nearby alien environment that no human will ever personally explore: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/earths-core-may-be-wrapped-in-an-ancient-unexpected-structure\">Earth\u2019s core<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Approaching it, each Earthly layer differs in composition and increases in pressure and temperature, displaying unique material properties that become murkier the deeper we delve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Earth is akin to a rocky, molten-in-the-middle nesting doll \u2013 or perhaps a rotting, soft-centered onion, though the latter analogy affords our majestic planet much less dignity. Although only several handfuls (39 fingers\u2019 worth, to be exact) of people have alighted on the ocean\u2019s deepest depths or upon the surface of the Moon, there\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242063","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}