Deep in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Wright dove to a point on the Earth few humans have ever dared to lay eyes on. Her mission: to map a slice of the mysterious Mariana Trench.

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near ...

Challenger Deep is in the Pacific Ocean inside of the Marina Trench. It's just shy of 11,000 meters, or 6.7 miles, below the ocean surface. In July 2022, Wright and pilot and ocean explorer Victor ...

Located in the Mariana Trench, over 6.7 miles beneath the Pacific Ocean's ... she advocates for a comprehensive mapping of the ocean by 2030. These maps are critical for understanding heat ...

Meet the Spilhaus projection, an ocean-centric map of the world's waters. ... The Pacific Ocean is riven with oceanic trenches 3-4 km deeper than the ocean bottom that they cut through.

A brilliant map showed just how big the Pacific Ocean is. The Ocean, which is around 32 percent of the planet’s total surface area and 46 percent of its water surface, covers 165.25 million ...

The Mariana Trench lies in the Pacific Ocean, it is the deepest ocean trench on the planet. Stretching 2,400km, and at 10,935m deep, it is the focus of much deep-sea research.

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon.But why is the Pacific so big? Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square kilometers ...

As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet. Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins.

This discovery, Dulcibella camanchaca, was made in the pitch black nearly 8,000 meters deep — close to the height of Mount Everest — in the South Pacific Ocean’s Atacama trench near Chile. 4 ...