Project Mojo - The First Importance of the Project

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Project Mojo hopes to drill a hole through the crust of the earth and find out what's down there. John Steinbeck is on the CUS-1 when it takes off because he's covering this whole story for Life Magazine. They sail for several days and then... Sunday, March 26th they reach Guadalupe Island in sight at dawn. We should be on our drilling station tonight.

Sixty years ago, geologists tried to drill down through the Earth’s crust to pull up a piece of the Earth’s mantle. Their mission didn’t go exactly as planned. But it sowed the seeds for a new field of science that’s helped us rewrite not only the history of the planet, but, potentially, our definitions of life itself.

The documentaries featured in this episode are "The First Deep Ocean Drilling: Mohole, Phase 1" and "Project Mohole: Report No. 1."

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