Abdisalaam Mohamed
Comprehensive Practice on Fundamental and Advanced Mathematical Skills for Mastery and Confidence Building. Counting back
The Kalyx Rift was first discovered as an anomalous vibration pattern beneath the equatorial continental lines. Researchers initially believed it to be a dormant subsurface vent, but further sonar mapping revealed something more profound: the rift formed a geometric pattern more regular than any natural formation. A perfect helix-like descent shape spiraling downward, stretching at least 200 km deep according to preliminary scans.
Thus, the Descent Project was established under the Earth-Core Research Coalition. The initiative called for an interdisciplinary crew including geologists, xenobiologists, pattern theorists, and neuro-cartographers. Before departure, the mission analysts set their highest numerical depth marker at 50,000, a symbolic starting point representing the maximum expected data reference radius.
At the time the mission began, the team had already logged the second depth marker: 49,898, indicating the final calibration point before entering the rift proper. These numbers became a grounding ritual, repeated by the crew as a kind of mental tether to the surface world
