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Mars Has Watery Insides, Just Like Earth

June 22, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Researchers from the Carnegie Institution have found that water is present in surprisingly Earthlike amounts within Mars’ mantle, based on studies of meteorites that originate from the Red Planet. The findings offer insight as to how Martian water may have once [...]

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Structure of the Earth

November 11, 2010

For centuries, scientists have pondered how the Earth came to be, it’s size and shape, and what its “foundations” are composed of. Most agreed that it was wrought out of some combination of the four or five basic elements (earth, air, wind, water, fire, and in some cultures, metal) while others argued that it was [...]

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The Layers of the Earth

April 6, 2010

In discussions regarding the layers of the Earth, people typically just talk about the layers underneath us. Actually, there are also layers above us. The layers beneath our feet, starting from where we stand down to the geometrical center of the planet, are namely the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core. [...]

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The Earth’s Layers

April 6, 2010

Unlike the layers of the atmosphere, which are easily accessible through airplanes, space shuttles and weather balloons, the Earth’s layers are hard to reach. The layers we are talking about are the layers of solid and liquid rock underneath our feet: the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. Much of what we know about [...]

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Earth’s Layers For Kids

October 6, 2009

My son recently came back from a science day camp with one of the coolest things. It was a model of the Earth that he had created out of modeling clay. It showed the internal structure of the Earth, and because he built it, he was able to remember all of the layers of the [...]

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