SAFOD is a history-making drilling project that is penetrating the active zone of the San Andreas fault, where the plan is to leave a suite of scientific instruments deep underground at the place where earthquakes are born. This set of pictures is from the final phase of drilling, in which several side channels were bored from the main hole and rock cores were extracted for study. The scientists in charge liken these core samples to the moon rocks of the Apollo space program.
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