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Vol.180 #4 (p. 32) August 31, 1963 | Vol. 84 | No. 9 Russians
Dig to Reach Below Earth’s Crust THE RUSSIANS are digging
through land to reach down just below the earth’s crust to the
mantle and expect to dig from six to nine miles down within
three to five years. The digging is being done at five locations
in the USSR, Prof. Vladimir V. Beloussov of the Soviet Academy
of Sciences said in Berkeley, Calif. He is president of the
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, which held a two-
week meeting in Berkeley, Calif. Scientists from 60 nations
attended. The United States is planning to dig to the mantle
through the ocean floor in a program called Project Mohole.
Prof. Beloussov pointed out that since the two countries are
approaching the exploration of the earth from two different
angles, they are not competing with each other… Prof. Beloussov
noted that man now knows quite a bit about cosmic space, but
that his knowledge of the earth reaches onl