Journey to the Center of the Earth
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 16 Story 9 - 7/3/2012

A layered onion

Our planet can be divided into five layers: crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, and inner core; things get more extreme, in terms of temperature and pressure, as we move towards its core. Adapted from Wikipedia/Surachit.
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A layered onion. Our planet can be divided into five layers: crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, and inner core; things get more extreme, in terms of temperature and pressure, as we move towards its core.