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 possible. Pretty easy right? Just dig as deep as you can until you reach the limit.
Digging Deep
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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.
What Their Goal Is