Do you know that the Earth’s innards — more than a thousand miles beneath the surface – are nearly as steamy as our sun?! Yes, surprisingly, it is where the mercury temperature soars to about 6,650 degrees Fahrenheit, with that of the sun reaching 9,980 degrees.
This new finding is groundbreaking for geologists to find the answer to the query –
How is heat transferred through the planet’s interior? It drives all geologic processes like earthquakes and volcanoes, and the magnetic field of the Earth.
Being examined an area beneath Central America, Robert van der Hilst of MIT and his colleagues said,
What is really the important thing is the amount of heat that can flow from the core into the mantle, and the amount of heat is related to the contrast in temperature.
They have performed the examination by monitoring seismic waves that generates earthquakes in real time.
It is by taking the temperature of the boundary between the core of the Earth and the surrounding mantle effectively the experts have penetrated waves thousands of miles beneath Earth’s surface.