New york
— Above ground, Mars is mostly a bone-chilling desert pocked with craters. Hundreds of kilometers below, however, a molten sea of iron, nickel and sulfur churns. And new research suggests the gooey core will eventually solidify – either from the outside-in, forming an iron-nickel core, or from the inside out, forming a core of minerals similar to fool’s gold.

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