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  1. Journey to the centre of the Earth
  2. Athanasius Kircher, 17th century
  3. Jules verne: Journey to the centre of the Earth, 19th century
  4. Continental deep drill hole, Germany 9042m
  5. Entrance to the old seismological observatory in Gottingen, Germany
  6. Registration of the San Francisco, 1906, Earthquake taken in Gottingen
  7. Seismic wave propagation through the Earth
  8. Earth's interior (1)
  9. Formation of magnetic lineations at mid-oceanic ridges
  10. Comparison of relative movement
  11. Earth's interior (2)
  12. Mantle xenolith
  13. Phase transitions of olivine
  14. Two end-member models of convection in the Earth's mantle
  15. Seismic tomography
  16. Cross-section through tomographic image of the mantle (1)
  17. Cross-section through tomographic image of the mantle (2)
  18. Cross-section through tomographic image of the mantle (3)
  19. 2D numerical model of slab subduction through a phase boundary
  20. Earth's interior (3)
  21. Temporary seismic network centered in the volcanic Eifel region, German
  22. Seismic image of a plume in the upper mantle below the Eifel region
  23. Laboratory plume generated by injecting hot corn syrup through a nozzle into a tank with cold syrup
  24. Computer simulation of mantle convection in a 2D box
  25. Earth's interior (4)
  26. Diamond anvil press allows to generate pressures as in the Earth's core
  27. Iron melting at high pressure and temperatures in the Earth's core
  28. William Gilbert (1600) concluded that the Earth itself is a big magnet
  29. Origin of geomagnetic dipole field?
  30. Self-sustained disk dynamo: a toy model
  31. Pattern of convection in a rapidly rotating spherical shell (Busse, 1972)
  32. Magnetic field lines in one of the first successful geodynamo simulations
  33. Radial magnetic field 1990 at Earth surface
  34. Radial magnetic field at the core-mantle boundary 100 yr apart
  35. Fluid motion at the core surface
  36. Polarity of Earth's dipole during the past 5 Myr
  37. Simulation of a geomagnetic reversal
  38. Decrease of geomagnetic dipole moment with time
  39. Magnetic field shields Earth from the energetic solar wind particles
  40. Aurora
  41. Earth's interior (5)
  42. cartoon
  43. Planets and their Interior
  44. The family
  45. The Moon
  46. Moon's interior
  47. Mercury (1)
  48. Mercury (2)
  49. Simple structural models for terrestrial planets: mantle and core
  50. Venus (1)
  51. Venus (2)
  52. Venus (3)
  53. Mars
  54. References
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