New idea tackles Earth core puzzle (BBC)
By Simon Redfern
BBC News
Scientists have proposed a radical new model for the make-up of the Earth's core.
The study may explain a longstanding puzzle about the most inaccessible part of our planet.
It suggests that differences between the east and west hemispheres of the core are explained by the way iron atoms pack together.
Details appear in the journal Scientific Reports.
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In Scientific Reports, Maurizio Mattesini from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and colleagues propose a novel possibility for the structure of the core: that it is composed of mixtures of different iron arrangements distinguished by the way their atoms pack together.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23180271
full paper: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130628/srep02096/full/srep02096.html
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...by Jules Verne.
I must have seen the movie 10 times as I was growing up in Idaho Falls, Idaho. There was a summer movie series for kids at the Paramount Theatre downtown. JttCotE was a regular (along with Conan Doyle's Lost World).
From Wikipedia, Film
A bit risque for Idaho Falls in the early 60's. When the heroes escape from the center via a volcanic eruption, Mr. Boone's..uh, garments..are torn away and he has to cover his...well, un-garmentedness.
Looking around for clips from that movie I found this discussion of the current realities of going deeper into the Earth:
The science fiction genre has captured many souls to be later released in the pursuit of science. If we can imagine what might be, then we can resolve to determine what really is. Jules Verne first took us to the moon, quickly around the world, and to the center of the Earth. His successors have taken us to planets and civilizations that we have yet to discover..and to microcosms within our world and our selves.