🌊 THE MARIANA TRENCH: DEEPEST PLACE ON EARTH
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DEEPEST
A CRACK DEEPER THAN ANY MOUNTAIN IS TALL
Far under the Pacific Ocean sits the Mariana Trench, the deepest known place on Earth. Its lowest spot is called Challenger Deep. Scientists measure it at about 10,935 metres down, nearly 11 kilometres deep. That is deeper than Mount Everest is tall if you stood the mountain upside down in the sea. Sunlight never reaches that far. The water there is icy and almost pitch black.
⚡ DID YOU KNOW?
If you stacked Everest on the seafloor at Challenger Deep, its tip would still sit under more than a kilometre of water.
PLUNGE!
WHERE
🗺️ The Mariana Trench lies in the western Pacific Ocean, near the Mariana Islands.
🌏 Ships can sail on sunny blue water above while a giant slash in the seafloor waits far below.
🌏 Ships can sail on sunny blue water above while a giant slash in the seafloor waits far below.
PLATES
🪨 Earth's outer shell is broken into huge plates that slowly move.
⬇️ At the trench, one plate slides under another, bending the seafloor into a deep ditch.
⬇️ At the trench, one plate slides under another, bending the seafloor into a deep ditch.