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60 Minutes

2/9/2020: Ultra Deep, Fly Like an Eagle, Easter Island

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this week's "60 Minutes," Bill Whitaker finds out what lies 2 miles below Earth's surface. Scott Pelley goes hunting with eagles in Mongolia, and Anderson Cooper reports on Easter Island's moai statues.

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Tonight on this special edition of 60 Minutes Presents, Great Adventures.

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Travel as deep into the earth as man has ever traveled, two miles down, to get to the

0:45.8

veined rock that becomes this liquid molten gold.

0:50.6

But gold's not all.

0:52.3

Scientists have found something else down here, something known as extreme life,

0:57.7

which might also exist on Mars.

1:01.0

So the Martians we meet in the future...

1:03.8

Be prepared to be surprised, I would say.

1:09.1

In Mongolia, hunters partner with eagles in a tradition that goes back thousands of years.

1:16.4

One of the best at this is Lauren McGough from, of all places, Oklahoma City.

1:23.3

This is the most ancient form of falconry in the world.

1:27.0

It blows my mind that it's even real.

1:29.0

It's like something out of Lord of the Rings, but you can do it.

1:31.4

We built a camera harness to learn what it's like, to fly like an eagle.

1:42.6

These giant stone statues have fascinated and confounded visitors for centuries.

1:49.0

Dutch explorers named this place almost 300 years ago when they spotted it on Easter Sunday.

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