page_title: Chikyū
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Chikyū / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: 1:100 scale model of Chikyū - the world's first scientific drilling vessel capable of drilling more than 7,000 meters (23,000 ft) below the seafloor. Built to provide a riser-equipped platform to the integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) - Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, USA
context_page_description: Chikyū is a Japanese scientific drilling ship built for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. The vessel is designed to ultimately drill seven kilometres beneath the seabed, where the Earth's crust is much thinner, and into the Earth's mantle, deeper than any other hole drilled in the ocean thus far.
  While the planned depth of the hole is significantly less than the Russian Kola Superdeep Borehole, the scientific results are expected to be much more interesting since the regions targeted by Chikyū include some of the most seismically-active regions of the world. Other deep holes have been drilled by the drill ship JOIDES Resolution during the Deep Sea Drilling Project and the Ocean Drilling Program.
context_section_description: The D/V Chikyū is featured and plays a pivotal role in the 2006 film Nihon Chinbotsu.
caption: Chikyū 1:100 scale model at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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