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Showing posts with label volcanoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label volcanoes. Show all posts

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Searching from space in the bowels of the Earth


The ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers of creature approved out an research on the ISS that will shed light on conditions in the depths of our planet. In orbit about 400 km height, Geoflow help us understand how the Earth works inside. Extend to a depth of almost 3000 km; the layer is composed of semi-solid materials graceful slowly under the thin outer shell. For study, it is considered that the mantle is divided into several layers of different viscosity as a result of increased pressure and temperature with depth.