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    Laser Tests reveal New Insights into Key Mineral for Super-Earths

    June 16, 2024, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    View of laser-driven experiments of shock-compressed magnesium oxide (MgO) within the chamber at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. High-power laser beams are used to compress MgO samples to pressures beyond those found in the center of Earth. A secondary source of X-rays is used to probe MgO’s crystal structure. Brighter regions are glowing plasma emission over nanosecond timescales.
    IMAGE CREDIT: JUNE WICKS/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

    Scientists have for the first time observed how atoms in magnesium oxide morph and melt under ultra-harsh conditions, providing new insights into this key mineral within Earth’s mantle that is known to influence planet formation.

    High-energy laser experiments — which subjected tiny crystals of the mineral to the type of heat and pressure found deep ...

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    How did Earth get its Water?

    April 13, 2023, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    How did Earth get its water?
    An illustration showing how some Earth’s signature features, such as its abundance of water and its overall oxidized state could potentially be attributable to interactions between the molecular hydrogen atmospheres and magma oceans on the planetary embryos that comprised Earth’s formative years. Credit: Edward Young/UCLA and Katherine Cain/Carnegie Institution for Science.

    Earth’s water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth’s formative years, according to new work from Carnegie Science’s Anat Shahar and UCLA’s Edward Young and Hilke Schlichting. Their findings, which could explain the origins of Earth’s signature features, are published in Nature.

    For decades, what researchers...

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