{"id":56292,"date":"2023-06-29T00:35:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T15:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/jun\/28\/why-is-the-earths-gravity-weakest-in-an-area-of-the-indian-ocean"},"modified":"2023-06-29T00:35:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T15:35:42","slug":"why-is-the-earths-gravity-weakest-in-an-area-of-the-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56292","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Earth\u2019s gravity weakest in an area of the Indian Ocean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in India believe they can explain why the region has weaker gravitational pull<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere roughly in the middle of the Indian Ocean is the deepest dent in Earth\u2019s gravitational field \u2013 the place where Earth\u2019s gravitational pull is the weakest. That\u2019s because there is less mass under that spot on our planet \u2013 but why?<\/p>\n<p>Many possible explanations have been put forward, but proving any of the theories has turned out to be tricky. Now Debanjan Pal and Attreyee Ghosh, of the Centre for Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India, think they have the answer. They reconstructed the last 140m years of plate tectonic movements and the stirring in the underlying mantle that accompanied the rearrangement of Earth\u2019s crustal jigsaw.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/jun\/28\/why-is-the-earths-gravity-weakest-in-an-area-of-the-indian-ocean\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in India believe they can explain why the region has weaker gravitational pullSomewhere roughly in the middle of the Indian Ocean is the deepest dent in Earth\u2019s gravitational field \u2013 the place where Earth\u2019s gravitational pull is the weakest&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,299,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56298,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56292\/revisions\/56298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}