The boundless wonder of the Mariana Trench
The Mariana Trench is a beautiful body of water, but it is also one of the most mysterious places on Earth. Scientists have been studying the Mariana Trench to find new species.
The Mariana Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean, 200 km from the Mariana Islands, The Mariana Trench is the deepest area on Earth.
The trench has a crescent shape and measures approximately 2550 km long and 69 km wide. The maximum depth of the trench is 11,034 meters. At its bottom there is a pressure of 1086 bar.
In 2009 the Mariana Trench was named a national monument of the United States.
Researchers at the Scripps Center for Oceanography have found single-celled organisms and an unknown plankton in the trench at depths of 10,600 meters.
A giant squid was also found, which had been an unknown species until then.
On January 23 of 1960 the first manned ship descended into the Mariana Trench. The manned spacecraft’s systems recorded a depth of 11,521 meters, which was later checked to be 11,034 meters.
Then in 2017, during an expedition in the Mariana Trench, a new species called Pseudoliparis swirei was found.
The Mariana Trench is one of the most most astonishing and mysterious natural wonders on earth.
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