I was part of an international team which retrieved a record-breaking 1,268m-long drill core (a long cylindrical sample of rock collected by the drill) of mantle rock from the seabed. This sample ...

Previous efforts to drill into mantle rocks brought to the ... in Australia and a co-author of a new study describing the core sample. "Every time the drillers recovered another section of deep ...

Although this makes this particular drill core the deepest sample of the mantle yet, going that deep into the rock wasn’t the goal of this record-breaking expedition. “We had only planned to ...

Aboard the ocean-drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution, they took a cylindrical core sample of the Atlantis Massif ... only 656 feet for fear that their drill might jam. But when no such problem ...

Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million years. They expect the sample to offer new insights into the evolution of ...

Select drill core samples of mica-rich sedimentary rocks, host to the prospective Devonian granites, returned up to 0.47% Li 2 O at the Storeys Creek target area. Strong lithium mineralization ...

The Australian Antarctic Division has plans to drill the world's first million-year-old ice core sample Chief scientist Nicole Webster says it means scientists will be able to reconstruct past ...

If confirmed, this means that, once the sample ... perfect spot to drill on the floor of Mars’s Jezero Crater and prepping it, NASA’s Perseverance rover collected the rock core, which is ...