Vaporizing Earth in computer simulations to aid search for super-Earths

Posted August 2nd, 2012 by PCC STEM & filed under Geology.

Scientists have vaporized the Earth -- if only by simulation, that is mathematically and inside a computer. They weren't just practicing their evil overlord skills. By baking model Earths, they are trying to figure out what astronomers should see when they look at the atmospheres of super-Earths in a bid to learn the planets' compositions.

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