I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the Earth's surface in the western Pacific Ocean with 10.98 km depth. Its deepest point is called the Challenger Deep ...

This groundbreaking mission was part of a broader initiative to map and understand ... Read More: Massive, deep-sea ‘entity' leaves ocean scientists ‘blown away' The Mariana Trench's state ...

This movement results in deep ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions, and earthquake epicenters along the boundaries where the plates meet, called fault lines. The Ring of Fire is home to the deepest ...

Despite advancements in technology and seabed mapping, a large part of the ocean ... Trench. That's because, the Mariana Trench's environment is very hostile. Sunlight cannot penetrate deep ...

Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench, is the deepest point in the ocean known so far, at approximately 11 kilometres - deeper than Mount Everest is tall. The Mariana Trench is 2,500 kilometres long, ...