Digging Deep
The Kola Peninsula in Russia is a sparsely inhabited area. The objective was straightforward. They just wanted to dig as far into the crust as possible.
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What Their Goal Is
The Soviets also intended to dig as far as 49,000 feet under the Earth’s surface. With the use of sophisticated equipment, they started drilling a sequence of boreholes that branched out from a single hollow. While working on this task, American prospectors made their own breakthroughs.