Subterranean Communists
The Soviets were now working fast and hard toward getting their burrowing expedition off the ground (or into it). It was during 1970, on a sunny May 24, that a group of scientists commenced their drilling project down into the Pechengsky District ground. This was in the Kola Peninsula area in Russia where a tiny amount of people lived. This meant that they had plenty of space to work in. It was their mission to break through as deeply into Earth’s crust as was humanly possible.
Subterranean Communists
Cutting The Edges
At the ground base, these enthusiastic Soviet scientists set out to hit a milestone of around 49,000 feet beneath the planet’s crust. They were furnished with the most advanced equipment in the U.S.S.R. to do with mining, which they used to first dig a main chasm from which a range of boreholes branched off in separate directions. As they were busying themselves with their descent, so too were their American counterparts on the other side of the world.
Cutting The Edges
