How to pronounce “moho” in English

Team Mohole disagreed about the next steps: should they continue with small tests in shallow holes?

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, who was at the Bauhaus, had come to Chicago to set up the new Bauhaus, which became Illinois Technology Institute of Design.

The group dubbed their plan Project Mohole, after the Mohorovičić Discontinuity, or the boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle.

The dreamers and schemers behind Project Mohole didn’t reach the big goal of drilling all the way through Earth’s crust.

The money ran out, and Project Mohole faded away.

And even though we still haven’t made it to the mantle, Project Mohole and the Kola Superdeep Borehole weren’t failures.

In fact, before the Kola Superdeep Borehole, there was… Project Mohole.