It is the result of a scientific drilling effort to penetrate as deeply as possible into the Earth's crust conducted by the Soviet Union in the Pechengsky District of the Kola Peninsula, near the Russian border with Norway.

Oct 20, 2023 · In 1970, the Soviets launched their attempt, drilling into Earth in Murmansk, Russia, just outside the Norwegian border near the Barents Sea. It's known as the Kola Superdeep Borehole and it was more successful, penetrating much deeper into Earth and collecting samples that still wow scientists today. Why dig so deep into the Earth?

Jan 2, 2024 · Several boreholes were drilled there, the deepest reaching its record depth in 1989. This borehole is called SG-3 and is the deepest in the world. The Kola Superdeep Borehole reached over 7.5...

The Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russian: Кольская сверхглубокая скважина, Kolskaya sverkhglubokaya skvazhina) was a very deep hole dug on the Kola Peninsula in Russia during 1970-1992 and closed by 2008.

Nov 10, 2009 · From 1970 to 1994 their drill on the Kola Peninsula chipped slowly away to create a Earth-shattering record at the time: the deepest hole in the world. In actuality, the Kola Superdeep Borehole...

May 11, 2017 · The Kola Superdeep Borehole boasts of being the deepest hole, but it is not the longest hole. After two decades of holding both records, Al Shaheen, a 7.64-mile oil well was dug in Qatar in 2008. In 2011, an oil well 7670.8 miles deep was drilled offshore the …

Jun 21, 2017 · The secret behind achieving the target was in drilling multiple holes that were connected to the main hole. After nine years of drilling, the project broke the record of the world's deepest hole, which stood at 9,583 meter and was located in Oklahoma, United States.

Jun 12, 2021 · From 1970 to 1994, in the western Russian province of Murmansk, the Kola Superdeep Borehole drilled to the deepest point ever reached below Earth’s surface. Housed in this 27-story superstructure, it found high temperatures, gases, fractures, water, and Precambrian fossils, and changed some long-standing scientific hypotheses.

Oct 28, 2021 · In 1990, the Kola Superdeep Borehole (SG-3) reached a record depth of 12,262 m. SG-3 fully completed all the assigned tasks, both in technical and scientific terms. The 4024 linear meters of core...

Nov 14, 2023 · This small, rusted metal cap is all that marks the hole, the deepest one ever drilled into the planet. Today, the Kola Superdeep Borehole is capped, a small monument the only evidence of the mammoth structure that once stood there. The Soviets ran out of money, and the project was abandoned.