, the United States began its space program in 1960, during which time it has undergone many tests. Three American astronauts successfully landed on the moon in 1969, driving Apollo 11 and . In a feat in history, mankind could not even think about landing on the moon before. The United States successfully landed on the moon, but the Soviet Union was helpless and wanted to win a game in other fields.
Although the Soviet Union’s aerospace industry was strong, it could not achieve the goal of landing on the moon. Since the United States landed on the moon and explored unknown areas, the depths of the earth were equally mysterious. In 1970, the Soviet Union’s "Dig Through the Earth" program was implemented. Although human beings are the dominant players of the earth, they still do not know enough about the earth. As we all know, the earth is an irregular spherical shape. It sounds like an absurd idea to dig through the earth, but the Soviet Union did it, and there are Some countries have followed suit.
The Soviet Union chose to implement the plan at the junction of the Arctic Circle Kola Peninsula and Norway. It sent many scientists to conduct research, and it also spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. The Soviet Union also insisted on digging for many years, with a depth of 12,263 meters. It has already exceeded the cognition. You must know that the world's highest peak is only more than 8,000 meters. The world's eyes are on the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union suddenly stopped digging. It is also puzzling. What happened?
The Soviet Union also did not give a convincing explanation, but there are some claims that are still quite credible, saying that the Soviet Union itself realized that it is impossible to dig through the earth, and the funds required for the plan gave the Soviet Union some If you can't bear it, profit doesn't stop loss, so it stops. And when it reached more than 10,000 meters underground, the temperature had exceeded expectations. It is said that it was 180 degrees. Under this influence, if you want to continue, you have to upgrade the technology, which the Soviet Union cannot afford.
The United States also knew it would not work, and stopped after drilling to nine kilometers. From another perspective, the Soviet Union still won. Although it stopped halfway, it was not a waste of effort. During the drilling process, it also had a deeper understanding of the earth. Understand, and also unearthed a lot of fossil fragments worth research. After the failure of the Soviet Union, no country had the idea of "digging through the earth", but it also stimulated their enthusiasm for earth exploration. Most of them ended in failure, except for Japan's "From the Moho interface to the mantle plan" "This plan is entirely for scientific research. Japan chose to experiment on a seabed with a crust of only six kilometers. Humans discovered the mantle in situ for the first time, which also provided a lot of research information on the relationship between the crust and the mantle.
Human beings’ curiosity about unknown areas will not diminish, and exploration will continue. In decades of scientific exploration, humans have gradually understood a truth. Most scientific studies that deviate from cognition are whimsical. No matter how much you invest, it's just useless. The 10,000-meter-deep man-made well on the Kola Peninsula is a lesson.
