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The Mariana Trench Is So Deep You Could Drop Mount Everest In and Still Have Room to Spare
The deepest point in Earth's oceans sits almost 11 kilometers below the surface.
Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific is the deepest known point in Earth's oceans — around 10,935 meters below sea level.
If you dropped Mount Everest (8,849 m above sea level) in there, its peak would still sit more than two kilometers underwater.
The pressure at the bottom is over a thousand times atmospheric pressure at the surface — comparable to having the weight of a small car pressing down on every square centimeter of your body.
The bigger picture: despite these extreme conditions, living organisms have been observed at the bottom of the Mariana Trench — from crustaceans to microorganisms — proof that life on Earth can survive in conditions as hostile as many environments beyond our own planet.
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