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How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth?

Annie Souriau, a seismologist at the Earth and planetary dynamics laboratory in Toulouse, tells how scientists managed to know so precisely what is in the bowels of our planet.
Event though we are in a time when human beings plan to set foot on Mars, they are not going to make a journey to the centre of the Earth for a while.

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