New Mexico scientists among team looking at other planets
New Mexico scientists among team looking at other planets RYAN BOETEL, Albuquerque Journal FacebookTwitterEmail ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The researchers charged up the Z machine, and in a blink of an eye its fist-size target plate was moving faster than 30 kilometers per second before exploding into a sample of bridgmanite — an elusive material found in the center of the Earth. The experiment, carried out at Sandia National Laboratories, was part of a project that is giving scientists insight into the bellies of planets hundreds of light years away — insights that may help them answer...
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