China started work on Tuesday (May 30) on a exploratory bore hole with a team that aims to drill 10,000 metres into the Earth’s crust, according to a report by Xinhua, which said the “scientific project” is in the Tarim Basin, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
The state media outlet hailed the effort to drill a hole deeper than Everest, the world’s highest mountain, as “a landmark in China’s deep-Earth exploration” that provides “an unprecedented opportunity to study areas of the planet deep beneath the surface”.
See: Xinhua.
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