Deepest Spot On The Ocean Floor

Geographical activities created deep trenches beneath the ocean that thousands of feet in.

Deepest spot on the ocean floor.

It is crescent shaped and measures about 2 550 km 1 580 mi in length and 69 km 43 mi in width. The challenger deep in the mariana trench is the deepest known point in earth s oceans. This image of the challenger deep in the mariana trench the deepest spot on earth was made using sound waves bounched off the sea floor. Measuring the greatest ocean depth.

Oceanic trenches in the ocean are long but narrow topographic depressions on the sea floor the deepest parts of the ocean floor. The deepest oceanic trench in the world is the mariana trench. It is the deepest oceanic trench on earth. The mariana trench or marianas trench is located in the western pacific ocean about 200 kilometres 124 mi east of the mariana islands.

Darker blues represent deeper spots. In 2010 the united states center for coastal ocean mapping measured the depth of the challenger deep at 10 994 meters 36 070 feet below sea level with an estimated vertical accuracy of 40 meters. Darker blues represent deeper spots. The pacific ocean has around 50 000km of convergent plate margins and most of the deepest point located around this place.

The crew of the specialized deep sea craft identified this remarkable spot in december of 1952.