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KOLA SUPERDEEP BOREHOLE
Deeper than the Mariana Trench, near its border with Norway, the Soviet Union spent 20 years drilling 7.6 miles into Earth; in 1992, the deepest borehole on Earth was abandoned in a region industrialization had turned into one of the most ‘poisoned spots on Earth’The Kola Superdeep Borehole, a groundbreaking feat by Soviet engineers, extends over twelve kilometers into the Earth. This ambitious endea...- What China aims to find by drilling a 10-kilometer deep hole into the groundChina's President Xi Jinping called for greater progress in deep Earth exploration in a speech addressing some of the nation’s leading scie...
- Peeved by traffic, Elon Musk is starting a company to build underground tunnelsMusk has already started burrowing near the offices of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. in Los Angeles -- a counterintuitive direction ...
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