Space is not the final frontier. Humankind has stumbled about the surface of the Moon, hurled satellites beyond the edge of the solar system -- we even have a rover trundling about the surface of Mars several million kilometres away, zapping rocks and poking Martian soil.
The final frontier is far closer to home -- the Earth's mantle, which sits beneath the outer crust we call home, has never been reached by humankind. An international team of scientists from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP) are set to embark on a $1 billion (£617 billion) expedition to drill into the mantle layer, and make history by collecting the first ever mantle samples.
By: David Cornish, Edited by: Liat Clark
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/05/drilling-into-the-earths-mantle
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