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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>A group of scientists working from a drilling ship off the coast of the Azores have collected the first-ever core samples taken from Earth\u2019s mantle, the molten area that surrounds the planet\u2019s core.<\/p>\n

They hope it will shed light on the chemical reactions that gave birth to life on Earth. The scientific triumph was made thanks to a rare spot on the Atlantic seafloor where the mantle, which is normally buried beneath miles of the crust, pokes through and can be sampled.<\/p>\n

Past efforts have focused on drilling down through the crust, which can be 20 or more miles thick. However, at Atlantis Massif, an underwater mountain the size of Mount Rainier, the scientists only had to drill through about 4,100 feet of seafloor \u2013 less than a mile.<\/p>\n

They used a drilling ship called the JOIDES [Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling] Resolution. According to the scientists, their success was far more than they\u2019d anticipated, and what was expected to be a small sample turned into huge volumes of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve achieved an ambition that\u2019s been feeding the science community for many decades,\u201d McCaig said.<\/p>\n

What they reached technically wasn\u2019t the mantle itself, but the barrier region between the mantle and the crust known as the Moho, after Croatian seismologist Andrija Mohorovic\u030cic\u0301, who discovered it in 1909.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, they were able to collect samples of mantle rock called peridotite in a relatively untarnished form. The mantle rock can sometimes be found after it\u2019s been blasted out of volcanoes, but it arrives on the surface damaged by its violent trip.<\/p>\n

Three other efforts to reach the Earth\u2019s mantle have failed. One, an American project in the early 1960s off the coast of Mexico called Project Mohole, reached a depth of 601 feet below the seafloor beneath 11,700 feet of water.<\/p>\n

A German effort in Bavaria from 1987 to 1995, the KTB superdeep borehole, reached a depth of 29,859 feet, halting when it hit rock 500 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n

However, the deepest point man has ever reached was the Soviet Union\u2019s Kola Superdeep Borehole, drilled in the country\u2019s far northwest between 1970 and 1995, which reached an astonishing depth of 40,230 feet, or 7.6 miles down. The Kola drillers could reach no further because the molten rock kept melting their drill bits.<\/p>\n

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