The deepest man-made hole on earth can be found in remote North-West Russia. It is better known as a borehole that is over 40 000 feet deep — a feat which has never been done anywhere else in the world. Drilling steadily towards the center of the earth, the scientists responsible eventually made a startling discovery that changed everything overnight. It would eventually also result in the historical hole being sealed and left alone completely to this very day. So why did this happen, exactly?
What Lies Beneath
From the days of the first satellite orbiting the earth in 1957, all the way through the modern missions to reach Mars, there is what some might even call an infatuation with discovering whether something exists outside our own realm of being. And while human beings are naturally curious about the world around them, and the study of space has existed for years, some scientists bring their curiosity back to this realm and take it to a whole new level by studying what goes on underneath the surface of our planet itself.