Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Mariana Trench Shown To Unsettling Scale

The Mariana trench is the deepest known part of the ocean at over 11,000 metres. The graphic below shows just how scarily deep that is! Amazingly, a manned descent was actually achieved in 1960, using the steampunk-sounding Bathyscaphe Trieste

Marianna Trench


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