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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

No, due to the pressure within the mantle and even between the crust and the mantle. The asthenosphere, for example, is generally solid due to that pressure; it’s actually when the pressure goes down that molten magma can form, as I understand it.

Also, the planet’s outer core is liquid iron and nickel, but the inner core is solid; but the temperatures down there are as hot as the sun’s surface.


19 posted on 11/10/2018 11:06:52 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
...the planet’s outer core is liquid iron and nickel, but the inner core is solid; but the temperatures down there are as hot as the sun’s surface.

That's the theory, anyway. Until we have the technology to make real world observations of the interior cores of planets, we can only hypothesize about their structure.

31 posted on 11/10/2018 1:32:20 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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