The patchy weather in the center of the Earth | Inverse

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The temperature 3,000 kilometers below the surface of the Earth is much more varied than previously thought, scientists have found. "The contrast between the solid mantle and the liquid core is greater than the contrast between the ground and the air. The core is like a planet within a planet." said Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić, a geophysicist in the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences.

"The centre of the earth is harder to study than the centre of the sun."

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