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British scientists are following science-fiction writer Jules Verne and taking a journey to the centre of the Earth to explore mysterious giant holes in the planet's crust.
Where there should be a four-mile-thick layer of crust, there is instead that much mantle - the very dense, leafy-green rock that makes up the centre of the Earth.