Digging Deep
On Russia’s Kola Peninsula, this is a sparsely populated area. The goal was easy to understand. They simply wanted to dig as deep into the crust as much as possible.
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Digging Deep
What Their Goal Is
The Soviets also wanted to go as deep as 49,000 feet beneath the Earth’s surface. They began digging a series of boreholes that forked off from a single cavity with the assistance of specialized equipment. American prospectors made their own progress while working on this mission.
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What Their Goal Is