Scientists To Drill Deeper Than Ever Before, Hope To Sample Mantle

They're planning on going where no one has ever gone before.Scientists say it's now possible to drill through Earth's crust and potentially sample Earth's mantle, according to a commentary in the March 24 issue of Nature. The piece came out on the 50th anniversary of the first attempt to drill into the mantle."That has been a long-term ambition of earth scientists," geologist Damon Teagle, one of the commentary's writers, told National Geographic News.Read More... More on Science

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