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Retro: Gamburtsev Mountains enigma unraveled in interior East Antarctica (Video Report)

Featured image: Map of Antarctica. SOURCE:  Outpost Antarctica

From youtube uploaded by newssciencenews on Nov 19, 2011

The birth of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains buried beneath the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet — a puzzle mystifying scientists since their first discovery in 1958 — is finally solved. . . From Description published with video.

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Earth’s Core: The Enigma 1,800 Miles Below Us

from  The New York Times

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Published: May 28, 2012

As if the inside story of our planet weren’t already the ultimate potboiler, a host of new findings has just turned the heat up past Stygian.

Geologists have long known that Earth’s core, some 1,800 miles beneath our feet, is a dense, chemically doped ball of iron roughly the size of Mars and every bit as alien. It’s a place where pressures bear down with the weight of 3.5 million atmospheres, like 3.5 million skies falling at once on your head, and where temperatures reach 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit — as hot as the surface of the Sun. It’s a place where the term “ironclad agreement” has no meaning, since iron can’t even agree with itself on what form to take. It’s a fluid, it’s a solid, it’s twisting and spiraling like liquid confetti.. . . Read Complete Report