China, which has the second-largest economy in the world, recently made a step that has its neighbors considering the goal of its new endeavor.
The media all over the world are paying close attention to Chinese scientists’ novel, inventive method of Earth exploration. According to a Bloomberg article, they have started to drill a hole through the Earth’s crust that will be 10,000 meters deep.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, drilling started on May 30, 2023, in China’s oil-rich Xinjiang province. The story claims that the shallow shaft in the ground will cut through more than ten geological strata to reach the Earth’s Cretaceous system.
Rocks from the Cretaceous period, which date back 145 million years, make up the surface. According to a scientist quoted by Xinhua, the drilling endeavor is so challenging that it may be compared to a large vehicle pulling two flimsy steel cables, according to Bloomberg.
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Why is China making such a massive hole?
Drilling is only being carried out to explore the deep Earth. This can aid in the early detection of any environmental disaster risk, such as earthquake and volcanic eruption risks.
Scientists will be able to forecast and issue warnings about such impending disasters thanks to this enormous hole that has been created by humans.
According to the report, China is going all efforts to excel in science, as they dispatched their first civilian astronaut into space across the Gobi Desert on the day of drilling the hole.
President Xi Jinping urged for increased progress in deep Earth exploration in one of his 2021 addresses. He was speaking to a group of China’s top scientists at the time. This type of research can identify energy and mineral reserves deep within the Earth’s crust.
This can aid in the early detection of any environmental disaster risk, such as earthquake and volcanic eruption risks. Scientists will be able to forecast and issue warnings about such impending disasters thanks to this enormous hole that has been created by humans.
Which artificial hole on Earth is the deepest?
The Russian Kola Superdeep Borehole, which took approximately 20 years to drill, is the deepest artificial hole in the world. The operation apparently stalled for almost a year due to numerous scientific and celebratory visits once the hole had been dug past 12,000 meters in 1989.
