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I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about how the Deep Carbon Observatory is transforming the way we understand life deep inside the earth how gravity can act like a

magnifying glass to help astronomers see further away and what does say to your friend

who's dealing with a crisis?

Let's satisfy some curiosity. Have you ever heard of the DCO, the Deep Carbon Observatory?

It's not your everyday observatory, and in fact it's not even a facility.

It's a group of more than a thousand scientists from 52 countries.

They're transforming our understanding of life deep inside the earth and maybe on other worlds.

So today I'm going to give you a primer on the DCO. As reported by

Evan Gough of universe today, no relation to me by the way at least as far as I know,

the DCO is coming up on the end of a 10-year project to investigate how the deep carbon

cycle affects Earth.

See, 90% of Earth's carbon is inside the planet, and the DCO is our first effort to really

understand it.

And like I mentioned, the DCO is a global endeavor.

Teams of scientists have explored some of the deepest mines on Earth,

drilled deeper into the ocean floor than ever before, and scrutinized volcanoes in their efforts

to understand Earth's deep carbon cycle.

They're not quite finished yet, and they haven't come up empty-handed after all this work. They've discovered a weird

underground world that holds between 245 to 385 times as much carbon as all of

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