Similar Projects
- The United States had embarked on a similar project in 1957, dubbed Project Mohole, which was intended to penetrate the shallow crust under the Pacific Ocean off Mexico. However, after some initial drilling, the project was abandoned in 1966 due to lack of funding. This failure inspired the great successes of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Ocean Drilling Program and the present Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.
- The KTB superdeep borehole (German Continental Deep Drilling Program, 1990–1994) at Windischeschenbach in northern Bavaria was drilled down to a depth of 9,101 m (29,859 ft) reaching temperatures of more than 260 °C (500 °F). Its ambitious measuring program used high-temperature logging tools that were upgraded especially for KTB.
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