Uncovering unexplained mysterious phenomena.
Uncovering of the most prestigious scientific advancements of the 20th century, a man made hole in the ground.
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Just east of the border of Norway, near the coast of the Barents Sea lies the ruins of a Soviet-era engineering facility.
Among all the living creatures on this planet, humans rank first for their thirst to know and understand things around us, no matter how close or far. One of the most famous excavations in this regard is that of the Kola Superdeep Borehole.
Russia (then the Soviet Union) faced defeat against the United States of America in 1969 in its battle of landing first on the moon. After that loss, it decided to beat America’s Project Mohole to drill through the crust of the earth to its deepest point. This initiative of Russia was cut short in 1966 due to lack of funds.
The Soviet Union eventually won this battle with the Kola Superdeep Borehole, which managed to get as close to the Earth’s mantle as anyone before or since.
After that, the authorities chose the Pechengsky District on the Kola peninsula as a drilling location. It is located in the far northwest of Russia.
Russian scientists started the drilling on May 24th,1970, using the best available Russian drilling rigs and targeted 15000 meters deep. It took nineteen years for the scientists to drill the deepest hole of the project named SG-3. This particular hole reached a depth of 12,262 meters.
Scientists discovered a lot from the Kola Superdeep Borehole. For starters, they realized they needed to update the temperature map for the Earth's interior since they encountered temperatures much higher than expected.
Can We Dig Deeper?
That'll take some pretty technologically advanced equipment, considering temperatures there are predicted to be as high as 500 degrees Fahrenheit (250 degrees Celsius).
Years after being mothballed, the borehole was finally sealed in 2008. Today, among the ruins of the support facilities on site, the only evidence of the site’s scientific significance is a small, now rusted metal cap. The cap is so nondescript you could be forgiven for not even noticing it if you ever visited the site for yourself.
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