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China Began Digging A 32,808-Feet-Deep Hole In Earth’s Crust

As the world’s second-largest economy explores new frontiers above and below the planet’s surface, Chinese scientists have begun drilling a 10,000-meter (32,808-foot) hole into the Earth’s crust.

According to the reports, drilling for what is expected to be China’s deepest-ever borehole began on Tuesday in the country’s oil-rich Xinjiang region. China sent its first civilian astronaut into orbit from the Gobi Desert earlier that morning.

The narrow tunnel into the ground would penetrate more than ten continental strata, or layers of rock, and reach the cretaceous system in the Earth’s crust, which contains materials dating back 145 million years.

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A scientist at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Sun Jinsheng said, “The construction difficulty of the drilling project can be compared to a big truck driving on two thin steel cables”.

In a speech to some of the country’s top scientists in 2021, President Xi Jinping called for greater progress in deep Earth research. Such research can assist uncover mineral and energy resources, as well as analyze the hazards of natural disasters like earthquakes and volcano eruptions.

The Russian Kola Superdeep Borehole, which reached a depth of 12,262 meters (40,230 feet) in 1989, after 20 years of drilling, remains the deepest man-made hole on earth.

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Spriha Rai

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