I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

This groundbreaking mission was part of a broader initiative to map and understand Earth's least explored environments. As Wright descended into the depths of the Mariana trench, she relished the ...

We were amazed at this to-scale map we found on Tumblr depicting the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans. The trench is located in the Pacific Ocean near the Philippines.

The ship, associated with CCOM, the Centre for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, mapped the whole of the Marianas Trench to a 100m resolution - including an accurate 'map' ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth. So deep that if you dropped Mount Everest inside, its peak would still be more than a kilometer ...

In fact, more people have been to the moon than to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. That's because, the Mariana Trench's environment is very hostile. Sunlight cannot penetrate deep water so it's ...

In the Mariana Trench, animals have evolved features that you can't find anywhere else on Earth. The trench is a geological feature so massive, so vast and so imposing that it makes Mount Everest look ...

The first explorers visited the trench in 1960 on a brief expedition, after which there had been no missions until Hollywood director James Cameron made the first solo trip to the bottom in 2012.