How far into the earth have we gone

Why is China drilling a 10000-m deep hole into Earth's crust?

Chinese scientists' new innovative way to explore the Earth is gaining a lot of attention in the media worldwide. They have started to drill ...

The first thing you'd need to do would be to drill the deepest hole humanity has ever imagined. We've already drilled holes through the Earth on What If. So you ...

Yep. Residential applications don't go particularly deep at all. AFAIK it's 6 ft (2m).

Earth has layers, kind of like an onion. We live on the crust. It's the thinnest layer, but it still goes 25 miles (40 km) deep. Underneath the crust is the ...

The Kola Superdeep Borehole, located in Russia, is the world's deepest man-made hole, reaching a depth of 40,230 feet (12,262 meters) or 7.6 ...

Drilling To The Mantle Of The Earth

And deep under the Pacific Ocean, 500 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, they're drilling - drilling deep down through the Earth's crust into ...

The Superdeep Number 3 in Kola, Russia, remains the world's deepest hole into the earth, at 12,261m. It took from 1970 to 1984 to get this far. One of the ...

But the hole in Kola remains the deepest. Why do we dig deep holes? There are a few reasons we humans dig deep into the Earth—extracting ...

How can we find out what's happening deep inside the Earth? The temperatures ... Lehmann theorized that these waves had traveled some distance into the core and ...

While a spacecraft has reached the edge of the Solar System at several billion kilometers away from the Earth, the deepest hole drilled into the Earth is less ...

What's Inside Earth's Inner Core? Seismic Waves Reveal ...

... Earth. “We have now confirmed the existence of the innermost inner core,” said one of the scientists, Hrvoje Tkalcić, a professor of ...

This is the first time humans have dug through the Earth's crust. In ... drilled 12.2 km into the earth's crust — the deepest hole dug so far.

The Kola Superdeep Borehole or the Kola Well is the deepest hole ever dug. ... In 1970, members of Russia or the Soviet Union decided to dig the ...

A team drilling down into the oceanic crust has reached impressive depths, collecting incredible samples of mantle rock from 1,000 meters ...

To date, the deepest hole humans have drilled reached a depth of ... get its drilling devices operating in the field within the next two years.

China Begins Drilling a 10-Kilometer-Deep Hole In Earth's ...

... they're not gonna throw Uyghurs into the hole with picks and shovels. ... China: if you don't do as we say, we will pop this planet we all live on ...

Not only has no one ever drilled to the centre of the Earth, no one has ever even managed to drill through the Earth's crust. In fact, we know ...

As you can see, you do not make it very far at all in your journey through the earth before dying. Let's assume you are able to put on some kind ...

The group is on a decade-long mission to discover how the carbon stored deep in the Earth affects life on the surface. ... 676 people have gone to.

... they pass through the middle of the Earth. ... So far there is little to indicate that what the inner core does has much effect on we surface ...

At long last, ocean drillers exhume a bounty of rocks from ...

From a ship, they aimed to drill through the thin veneer of Earth's ... into Earth's interior at deep ocean trenches. “There's so much more ...

... has ever done before. For the next 24 years, they drilled on and off into the Earth's crust. The result was the Kola Super deep Borehole and a drill-depth ...

Wonders have taken us to the highest peak on Earth. They've taken us high into the atmosphere. They've even gone to outer space! But today's Wonder of the ...

The Russian Kola Superdeep Borehole is the deepest man-made hole ever drilled into the Earth. The hole took roughly 2 decades to get drilled. In ...

... deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface of our planet. ... into potentially lucrative energy reserves buried deep below. Both ...