Dig to
the Core

The centre of the Earth is 6,371 km beneath your feet. Nobody has ever been more than 12 km of the way. Scroll down to drill. Go too fast and your drill overheats: pulse coolant, fit tougher drill bits as the rock heats up, and fire the seismic ping to reveal 10 hidden discoveries.

You reached the centre of the Earth

It is about as hot here as the surface of the Sun, and the weight of the whole planet presses in from every side. Gravity pulls equally in all directions, so you would float, weightless, inside a ball of solid iron.

Depths, temperatures and pressures are rounded, widely published estimates (USGS, British Geological Survey, published seismology). Deep-Earth values are uncertain by several hundred degrees.