How far into the earth have we gone

First Ever Rocks from the Earth's Mantle

This is the first time humans have dug through the Earth's crust. In ... drilled 12.2 km into the earth's crust — the deepest hole dug so far.

... Earth. “We have now confirmed the existence of the innermost inner core,” said one of the scientists, Hrvoje Tkalcić, a professor of ...

Question: how far humans have drilled into the Earth's crust? The answer to that question is lying below a small, nondescript rusty cap in Murmansk Oblast ...

It's about 40,230ft. deep. It is located in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It was an ambitious project to dig deeper into the crust and even ...

In fact even today, the furthest we've drilled into the Earth is around 12km, while the distance to the centre is over 500 times further, at ...

Drilling To The Mantle Of The Earth

And deep under the Pacific Ocean, 500 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, they're drilling - drilling deep down through the Earth's crust into ...

But the hole in Kola remains the deepest. Why do we dig deep holes? There are a few reasons we humans dig deep into the Earth—extracting ...

The first thing you'd need to do would be to drill the deepest hole humanity has ever imagined. We've already drilled holes through the Earth on What If. So you ...

The Russian team had a simple goal – to dig as far as possible into the Earth's crust. Of course, they aimed to go further than the 600 feet ...

How far down have humans drilled into the Earth? The deepest penetration of the Earth's surface is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia at ...

To the core: How can we travel to the center of the Earth?

... into deep space -- going down has always proven rather difficult. To this day, the deepest humankind has ever gone is just 7.6 miles below ...

But if you did find a way, you'd soon hit the halfway point, about 6.4 million meters down, also known as the center of the Earth. Now, there's nearly the same ...

The goal, according to The Guardian, is to drill nearly seven miles into the Earth's crust, through roughly a dozen continental strata, and ...

And they've determined the temperature by running experiments on iron and other elements to simulate how such metals behave deep inside Earth, ...

As mentioned previously, the deepest humans have ever drilled — the Kola Superdeep Borehole — reached only about 0.2% of the way to the Earth's ...

Deep inside Earth, scientists find weird blobs and ...

It's a simplistic description of Earth, but for a long time many scientists would have gone along with it. There's no way to explore our ...

The presence of liquid water on the surface is what makes our "blue planet" habitable, and scientists have long been trying to figure out just ...

Yep. Residential applications don't go particularly deep at all. AFAIK it's 6 ft (2m).

The German Continental Deep Drilling Program at 9.1 kilometres (5.7 mi) has shown the earth crust to be mostly porous. Drillings as deep as 2.1 ...

Wonders have taken us to the highest peak on Earth. They've taken us high into the atmosphere. They've even gone to outer space! But today's Wonder of the ...

Expedition to Drill to the Earth's Mantle Ends Today

The Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES) expedition 360 on ... Humans have yet to reach the Earth's mantle, but have ...

... they pass through the middle of the Earth. ... So far there is little to indicate that what the inner core does has much effect on we surface ...

This is all part of the crust, which may go down as far as 20 miles (30 kilometers); it floats on top of the layer called the mantle. The upper ...

How can we find out what's happening deep inside the Earth? The temperatures ... Lehmann theorized that these waves had traveled some distance into the core and ...

The farthest that humans have ever dug into the Earth is at the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a 7.5-mile-deep drill hole in northwestern Russia. That's deep, but it ...