Journey to the centre of the Earth

Seismic observation of hemispherical division in the Earth’s inner, © Deuss et al. Regional Variation of Inner Core Anisotropy from Seismic Normal Mode Observations. Science (2010) vol. 328 (5981) pp. 1018-1020

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05/02/2016

It includes the discovery that the core is made of two distinct hemispheres as different as the oceanic regions are to the continental regions on the Earth's surface.

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The project 'EARTH CORE STRUCTURE', funded by the European Research Council (ERC), has greatly improved the knowledge we have of the inside of our planet by determining a new method to understand its structure. The method uses knowledge from different disciplines and has helped scientists paint a picture of the Earth's core - more comprehensive than ever before.

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