{"id":16512,"date":"2021-03-17T13:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=16512"},"modified":"2021-05-18T07:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:11:23","slug":"how-an-ill-fated-undersea-adventure-in-the-1960s-changed-the-way-scientists-see-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/how-an-ill-fated-undersea-adventure-in-the-1960s-changed-the-way-scientists-see-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"How an ill-fated undersea adventure in the 1960s changed the way scientists see the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a mystery hiding deep beneath our feet. If you dig down past the tree roots and house foundations, past the water table and the fossilized bones, through layers of rock and ore, you\u2019ll eventually reach a boundary. Here, the Earth\u2019s crust \u2014 the rock we live our lives on \u2014 transitions into the denser rock of the Earth\u2019s mantle. This boundary is the Mohorovi\u010di\u0107 discontinuity, or \u201cMoho\u201d for short. And no one knows for sure what this boundary looks like, or what lies there. Hear more in the Unexplainable podcast episode &#8220;Journey Toward the Center of the Earth&#8221; with Byrd Pinkerton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a mystery hiding deep beneath our feet. If you dig down past the tree roots and house foundations, past the water table and the fossilized bones, through layers of rock and ore, you\u2019ll eventually reach a boundary. Here, the Earth\u2019s crust \u2014 the rock we live our lives on \u2014 transitions into the denser&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[577],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16514,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512\/revisions\/16514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16512"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=16512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}