Analysis of the resulting rock core offers fresh clues about ... he and his colleagues initially planned to bore 200 metres into the mantle with the drilling ship JOIDES Resolution, deeper than ...

the project to obtain the core. The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) deep, with a team of 16 scientists and support personnel drilling each summer over four years in average ...

Barbante also directs the Polar Science Institute at Italy's National Research Council.The same team previously drilled a core about 800,000 years old. The latest drilling went about 1.7 miles ...

The same team previously drilled a core about 800,000 years old. The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) deep, with a team of 16 scientists and support personnel drilling each ...

Scientists Drill Nearly 2 Miles Down to Pull 1.2 Million-Year-Old Ice Core From Antarctic An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ...