How far into the earth have we gone

What Can We Learn By Drilling Into The Earth's Mantle?

Scientists have just discovered something deep in the earth's crust that could tell us a lot about outer space. What exactly did they find?

Researchers say the Kola bore could have been dug as deep as 9 miles or 14.4 kms. ... They tried to drill as far into the crust of the earth as ...

Over the next 24 years, these scientists drilled down on and off, and while they didn't get down as far as they were hoping, by 1994, they'd ...

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

China has made a great leap into the depths of the Earth. With an ambitious drilling project, the country has set out to reach a depth of ...

But How Do We Know What's Down There? / Reading ...

A mine is the deepest place a person can go into the Earth (see Eliza, below) and while it's pretty incredible down there, even being deep in a gold mine does ...

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

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 ...

The deepest hole ever drilled by humans is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, reaching a depth of 7.5 miles (12 kilometers).

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 ...

Core - National Geographic Education

Earth is divided into three main layers. The dense, hot inner core (yellow), the molten outer core (orange), the mantle (red), and the thin crust (brown) ...

Through the mission, “we can learn how frequent and big they were. ... On land, the deepest hole drilled into Earth's surface is the Kola ...

It is located near the Russian border with Norway on the Kola Peninsula. It is 12.2 km (40,230 ft) deep under Earth's crust.

But, at more than 12 kilometres, it's still the deepest anyone has ever drilled in the world. Locals say it leads to hell – and, sometimes, it ...

(Bloomberg) -- Chinese scientists have begun drilling a 10,000-meter (32,808 feet) hole into the Earth's crust, as the world's second largest economy ...

Inside Russia's 7.5-MILE deep hole branded 'Well to Hell'

THE KOLA Superdeep Borehole is the deepest manmade hole on Earth.It is located in the arctic circle, within the Pechengsky District of ...

Chinese scientists have begun digging a really deep hole to the centre of the Earth to learn what happens inside our planet. The borehole in ...

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 ...

Scientists and geologists were drilling over 10km deep, into the Earth's crust, during a Cold War race to the centre of the planet. On May ...

The German Continental Deep Drilling Program at 9.1 kilometres (5.7 mi) has shown the earth crust to be mostly porous. Drillings as deep as 2.1 ...

Voyage into Planet Earth

How Far Down Have Humans Drilled? The Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia reached. 7.6 miles (12.2 kilometers) and is the deepest humans have ...

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 ...

In fact even today, the furthest we've drilled into the Earth is around 12km, while the distance to the centre is over 500 times further, at ...

As with the original Project Mohole, the scientists are planning to drill through the seabed where the crust is only about 6km (3.75 miles) deep ...

But of course, we can drill holes in the Earth. And how deep can we get? To date, the deepest hole is the Kola Superdeep Borehole. Drilling started in the ...