Challenger Deep Sea Floor

Video footage from fk141215 showing the lego lander that went to deepest spot in the ocean challenger deep in the mariana trench.

Challenger deep sea floor.

On january 28 1986 america watched on television as the space shuttle challenger carrying six astronauts and one schoolteacher disappeared in a twisting cloud of smoke nine miles above the. Estimates vary a little but at its blackest depths a crease called the challenger deep this abyss is close to 36 037 feet 10 984 meters or about 6 8 miles 10 9 kilometers deep. The challenger deep is a relatively small slot shaped depression in the bottom of a considerably larger crescent shaped oceanic trench which itself is an unusually deep feature in the ocean floor. Deepsea challenger dcv 1 is a 7 3 metre 24 ft deep diving submersible designed to reach the bottom of challenger deep the deepest known point on earth on 26 march 2012 canadian film director james cameron piloted the craft to accomplish this goal in the second manned dive reaching the challenger deep.

Darker blues represent deeper spots. Challenger deep the deepest point in the mariana trench which is itself the deepest part of the ocean is therefore the deepest point on earth more than 36 000 feet below the ocean s surface. The name challenger deep is often used synonymously with earth s deepest point but challenger deep isn t a sounding or a single spot on the ocean floor. It s a deep more on this in a moment.

If you inverted everest and plunged it into the mariana it highest craggy peak would fall short of the bottom by more than 7 000 feet 2 134 meters. The challenger deep in the mariana trench is the deepest point in the ocean. This image of the challenger deep in the mariana trench the deepest spot on earth was made using sound waves counched off the sea floor. Built in sydney australia by the research and design company acheron project pty ltd.

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