China Has Started Digging a Mysterious 10,000-Meter Deep Hole In Taklamakann Desert @TheCosmosNews

#thecosmosnews China has started digging a borehole 11,100 metres in depth in the Tarim Basin, located deep within the Taklimakan Desert, which is the largest desert in China, according to a report by Xinhua. The purpose of the borehole is for scientific exploration, with researchers intending to find out what is deep within the surface of the Earth. The interior of the planet is challenging to study by scientists because of how remote and inaccessible it is. If successful, the effort will result in the deepest borehole in China, and the first one to exceed a depth of 10,000 metres. The hole is expended to pass through 10 layers of continental strata, going back to the Cretaceous period. However, this will not be the deepest artificial hole, which is a record held by the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, which reached a depth of 12,262 metres. The Al Shaheen Oil Well actually had a longer borehole in the pure distance, while not reaching the same depth, and measured 12,289 metres in length.