Analysis of data from the European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite, which flew during 2013, reveal deep plumes of mantle material rising from more than 2,000 km down. The images, generated by Dr Isabelle Panet from the Paris Institute of Earth Physics and published by the journal Nature Geoscience, vividly show mid-ocean ridges and tectonic plates plunging back into the mantle.
Goce detects deep plumes of mantle material rising from more than 2,000km down
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BBC News – Europe’s Goce gravity satellite probes Earth’s mantle.
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