Scientists Drilled So Deep Into the Center of the Earth, They Knocked on the Mantle’s Door

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To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth.

Scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite that forms