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In this visualization from David Pugmire at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a team led by Jeroen Tromp at Princeton University is imaging the interior of the Earth with adjoint tomography.Science

A Data-Driven Journey to the Center of the Earth

In a farewell nod to Titan, scheduled to be decommissioned in August 2019, we present a short series of features highlighting some of Titan’s impactful contributions to scientific research. In Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, an impatient geology professor leads a subterranean expedition in search of…
Jonathan Hines
July 5, 2019
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A Seismic Mapping Milestone

Because of Earth’s layered composition, scientists have often compared the basic arrangement of its interior to that of an onion. There’s the familiar thin crust of continents and ocean floors; the thick mantle of hot, semisolid rock; the molten metal outer core; and the solid iron inner core. But unlike…
Jonathan Hines
March 28, 2017