Narrow 11,000-metre shaft will reach the Earth’s crust to study internal structures as China seeks to explore new frontiers
China has begun digging its deepest borehole in an effort to study areas of the planet deep beneath the surface.
The project is expected to be completed in 457 days and has been hailed by Chinese state media outlets as “a landmark in China’s deep-Earth exploration”.The deep exploration well will allow scientists to study the internal structure and evolution of the Earth, and provide data for geoscience research, China National Petroleum Corporation, the country’s leading oil and gas producer which led the project, said in a statement.
It is not going to be an easy feat, however. “The construction difficulty of the drilling project can be compared to a big truck driving on two thin steel cables,” Sun Jinsheng, a scientist at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, told Xinhua.
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