Is there a hidden world?

Earth's solid inner core may be home to a "hidden new world", scientists have claimed. Within the scientific community, there is consensus about Earth's inner core being a solid compressed ball of iron alloy, which is surrounded by the Earth's outer core.
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Is there a center of the earth?

Yep! at the very center of the Earth lies a solid metallic inner core with a diameter of about 1220 Km. At this depth, the pressure is so huge that the iron and nickel present in the core can exist in a solid state in spite of the high temperature.
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Do scientists know what is at the Centre of the earth?

We find that the earth has a small inner core made out of iron surrounded by a larger outer liquid iron core and THAT is surrounded by a rocky mantle and rocky crust. geology!
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What is in inside the earth?

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball, about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) in diameter. Although this inner core is white hot, the pressure is so high the iron cannot melt.
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Is the outer core liquid?

The outer core is the third layer of the Earth. It is the only liquid layer, and is mainly made up of the metals iron and nickel, as well as small amounts of other substances. The outer core is responsible for Earth's magnetic field.
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What keeps the Earth's core hot?

The primary contributors to heat in the core are the decay of radioactive elements, leftover heat from planetary formation, and heat released as the liquid outer core solidifies near its boundary with the inner core.
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Is the Earth's core heating up?

Earth's core is cooling at rates faster than previously thought, which could speed the planet's inevitable march toward uninhabitability millions or billions of years from now, researchers said this week.
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Do we live inside the Earth?

Before we begin, we'd like to clarify that we do not live "inside the earth." We live on the surface of the earth.
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Can we go inside the Earth?

There's no way to explore our planet's interior directly; the deepest hole ever drilled, the Kola Deep borehole in the Russian Arctic, reaches only 0.2 percent the way to the center.
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What is beneath the Earth?

Deep in the centre of the planet is the 'inner core', which we think is made of solid iron and nickel. This is surrounded by the 'outer core', which is also made of iron and nickel, but is molten. Convection currents in the outer core create Earth's magnetic field.
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Why we Cannot go to the Centre of the Earth?

We cannot go to the centre of the earth, since the temperature and pressure increase enormously as we go deeper inside the earth.
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Who discovered Earth?

The first person to determine the size of Earth was Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who produced a surprisingly good measurement using a simple scheme that combined geometrical calculations with physical observations.
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Which country is heart of Earth?

2003 calculation of the geographical center of all land surfaces on Earth: İskilip, Turkey. The geographical center of Earth is the geometric center of all land surfaces on Earth.
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How deep have we drilled into the Earth?

Deepest drillings

The Kola Superdeep Borehole on the Kola peninsula of Russia reached 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) and is the deepest penetration of the Earth's solid surface. The German Continental Deep Drilling Program at 9.1 kilometres (5.7 mi) has shown the earth crust to be mostly porous.
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How far into the Earth have we gone?

Known as the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest hole ever dug reaches approximately 7.5 miles below the Earth's surface (or 12,262 meters), a depth that took about 20 years to reach.
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How long has Earth got left?

The upshot: Earth has at least 1.5 billion years left to support life, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters. If humans last that long, Earth would be generally uncomfortable for them, but livable in some areas just below the polar regions, Wolf suggests.
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Do you age in space?

In space, people usually experience environmental stressors like microgravity, cosmic radiation, and social isolation, which can all impact aging. Studies on long-term space travel often measure aging biomarkers such as telomere length and heartbeat rates, not epigenetic aging.
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What age do we live in?

Scientists have just assigned three new ages to the Holocene, which is the current epoch in which we live. They're calling this most recent age the Meghalayan, which began 4,200 years ago during a worldwide megadrought. The Holocene commenced 11,700 years ago after the end of the last ice age.
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What planet could we live on?

Then, just last year, scientists discovered another Earth-like planet orbiting one of our closest neighboring stars, Proxima Centauri. Currently, this planet is the best candidate we have for supporting human life.
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Why do we live?

We live because of the happy things. We live because there are people who love us, and people we love back. We live because we want to find out things, and learn, and become able to do things that we would like to do. We live because others want us to, and we want them to live along with us.
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How cold is space?

The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite has refined temperature measurements taken way back in 1964. According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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What would happen if the Earth stopped rotating?

At the Equator, the earth's rotational motion is at its fastest, about a thousand miles an hour. If that motion suddenly stopped, the momentum would send things flying eastward. Moving rocks and oceans would trigger earthquakes and tsunamis. The still-moving atmosphere would scour landscapes.
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What happens if the Earth's core stops spinning?

Stopping Earth. If Earth stopped spinning all at once, it would be enormously catastrophic for much of the planet's surface. Though we don't feel it, we're all moving along with the planet as it rotates; at the equator, this works out to around 1,000 miles per hour.
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