{"id":157224,"date":"2024-05-11T18:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=157224"},"modified":"2024-05-11T18:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T18:24:44","slug":"scientists-discover-hidden-planet-under-the-earths-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/scientists-discover-hidden-planet-under-the-earths-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover \u201chidden planet\u201d under the Earth\u2019s surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are all sorts of intriguing elements hidden beneath the Earth\u2019s surface, from massive oceans to water leaking directly into the planet\u2019s core \u2013 the latest discovery, though, might be the most interesting of all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-157225\" src=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1-8-e1715451822863-300x212.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1-8-e1715451822863-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1-8-e1715451822863.png 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New research has pointed to fascinating findings close to the Earth\u2019s core which experts are claiming to be remains from an ancient planet.<\/p>\n<p>The planet, named Theia, could have collided with our planet billions of years ago and evidence of this event is supposedly found within two blobs far beneath the surface.<\/p>\n<p>These blobs have fascinated the scientific community since they were first discovered back in the 1980s. These structures are the size of entire continents and around twice the size of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re located beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean, and due to the high iron content of these structures, seismic waves pass through them at a slower rate \u2013 leading to them being labelled \u201clarge low-velocity provinces\u201d (LLVPs).<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06589-1\">study<\/a> into these LLVPs was published at the end of 2023 in the journal <em>Nature<\/em> and featured new findings from Caltech researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Most significantly, the study argues that these structures, which have divided opinion for decades, are actually the remains of Theia, which collided with Earth billions of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This collision caused the creation of the Moon, and the new study argues that the planet was absorbed into the Earth and formed the LLVPs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Seismic images of Earth\u2019s interior have revealed two continent-sized anomalies with low seismic velocities, known as the large low-velocity provinces (LLVPs), in the lowermost mantle<\/em>,\u201d researchers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The LLVPs are often interpreted as intrinsically dense heterogeneities that are compositionally distinct from the surrounding mantle<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They added: \u201c<em>Here we show that LLVPs may represent buried relics of Theia mantle material (TMM) that was preserved in proto-Earth\u2019s mantle after the Moon-forming giant impact.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our canonical giant-impact simulations show that a fraction of Theia\u2019s mantle could have been delivered to proto-Earth\u2019s solid lower mantle<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>yogaesoteric<br \/>\nMay 11, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are all sorts of intriguing elements hidden beneath the Earth\u2019s surface, from massive oceans to water leaking directly into the planet\u2019s core \u2013 the latest discovery, though, might be the most interesting of all. New research has pointed to fascinating findings close to the Earth\u2019s core which experts are claiming to be remains from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157228,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157224\/revisions\/157228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}