Not exact matches
At the proposed site, the Tohoku fault lies
under 7 kilometers of water and some 700
meters of
Earth's crust, so a huge drill string will be needed.
Some would take astronauts to small objects (less than 100
meters across) just beyond the moon and back to
Earth in
under six months.
The rocks were dredged from the remote Gakkel Ridge, which lies
under 3,000 to 5,000
meters of water; it is
Earth's most northerly undersea spreading ridge.