• With an average depth of 3,700 meters, experts have also divided the world ocean into various zones based on depth from the surface for ease of …
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The Mariana Trench Is 7 Miles Deep: What’s Down There?
The Trench sits like a crescent-shaped dent in the floor of the Pacific Ocean, extending over 1500 miles long with an average width of around 43 miles and a depth of almost 7 miles (or just under 36,201 feet). It's deeper than Mount Everest (29,037 feet); at that depth, the weight of water above makes the pressure in the Trench around 1000 times higher than it would be on the ground.
The Mariana Trench hosts the Challenger Deep, the deepest known part of all of the earth's oceans. Researchers are eager to learn more about it by …
The Mariana Trench has some of the harshest conditions on earth. The bottom of the trench is cloaked by perpetual darkness, and the waters are at …
Depth (feet) Challenger Deep Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc, Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean Tonga Trench Pacific Ocean Galathea Depth Philippine Trench, Pacific Ocean …
The Mariana Trench is part of a system of deep natural trenches located on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. The trenches or troughs formed on the …
• Making up roughly 46.6 percent of the global ocean, experts consider the Pacific to be the world’s largest ocean. • Similar to the Pacific, the Atlantic …
