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Mariana Trench

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Mariana Trench

Submarine trench in the floor of the western North Pacific Ocean. It is the deepest known depression on the surface of the Earth, with a maximum depth of 36,201 ft (11,034 m). The trench extends from southeast of Guam to northwest of the Mariana Islands, a distance of more than 1,580 mi (2,550 km), and has a mean width of 43 mi (69 km). See also deep-sea trench.
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10,902 meters is the record-setting depth a robotic vehicle called Nereus recently dived in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.
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The deepest part of our planet is the Mariana trench, near Japan and the Philippines.
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The deep-sea remotely operated vehicle Nereus plunged 10,902 meters to scrape seafloor in the Mariana Trench on May 31, making it the deepest-diving vehicle operating today.
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