Post-perovskite (IMAGE)

Yale University

Post-perovskite

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This X-ray diffraction image of a small sample of post-perovskite, which exists deep in the Earth's interior, was taken while the mineral was being compressed to pressures more than one million times atmospheric pressure.

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Lowell Miyagi/Yale University

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