The Soviet Union Falls
As the Kola borehole closing coincided with the Soviet Union collapsing, and by 1995 everything came to a permanent halt. The site exists to this very day, although it is flagged as an environmental hazard. Tourists are welcome to visit the nearby town of Zapolyarny, roughly six miles away from the site, to see some relics from the experiment. Until today, the Kola Superdeep Borehole remains the deepest man-made point of entry to the core of Earth, no one has beat their record since!
The Soviet Union Falls
The Race Is Far From Over
That’s not to say that the race to get closer to the Earth’s core has been abandoned altogether. The International Ocean Discovery Program is leading the way in terms of finding out what lurks far beneath the ocean floor. Their teams are proud to brave the elements and to do what they can in order to find out exactly what else we can learn about the earth from what lurks below where our eyes can see.
The Race Is Far From Over
