{"id":91771,"date":"2019-06-08T10:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/synopsis-scanning-earths-interior-with-neutrinos"},"modified":"2019-06-08T10:03:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:03:59","slug":"synopsis-scanning-earths-interior-with-neutrinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/synopsis-scanning-earths-interior-with-neutrinos","title":{"rendered":"Synopsis: Scanning Earth\u2019s Interior with Neutrinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synopsis-scanning-earths-interior-with-neutrinos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Future neutrino experiments may provide tomographic scans of Earth\u2019s interior by viewing solar neutrinos that pass through our planet\u2019s layers.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun showers Earth with neutrinos, but this \u201cglow\u201d doesn\u2019t dim when the Sun goes down. At night, solar neutrinos penetrate Earth, impinging detectors from below. Like x rays in a medical scanner, these planet-traversing neutrinos might offer information about the material they pass through. New theoretical calculations show that future experiments, such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), could characterize the different layers inside Earth with neutrino-based tomography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/synopsis-for\/10.1103\/PhysRevD.96.036005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future neutrino experiments may provide tomographic scans of Earth\u2019s interior by viewing solar neutrinos that pass through our planet\u2019s layers. The Sun showers Earth with neutrinos, but this \u201cglow\u201d doesn\u2019t dim when the Sun goes down. At night, solar neutrinos penetrate Earth, impinging detectors from below. Like x rays in a medical scanner, these planet-traversing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91771","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}