The ocean covers more than 70% of the Earth’s total surface and contains roughly 97% of all its water. Measuring about 361.9 million square …
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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 ft); 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 ocean is a massive body of saline water that covers approximately 72% of the Earth's surface. According to NOAA, there is only one Global Ocean. …
Experts estimate that 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is completely covered by water with approximately 96.5 percent of this water being ocean. …
It takes an incredible level of force to shift the Earth's surface. Therefore, the mechanisms that propel and pull tectonic plates are an endlessly …
The earth's surface is not static; it is a constantly changing landscape shaped by the movements of the underlying tectonic plates. The theory of …
