Hello Steemit! Not a lot of facts about the Mariana Trench!

in #science8 years ago

Mariana Trench is the most unexplored place on our planet. Still hides secrets mass. The man is still able to learn a few interesting facts about Mariana Spadina. It will be interesting !

1. The maximum depth of the Mariana Trench 10,994 meters. For comparison - the highest peak of the Earth - Everest - reaches a height of 8848 meters and, therefore, being in the Mariana Trench, it would completely covered with water.

2. Water in the Mariana Trench warm - from 1 to 4 degrees Celsius. The reason for such a high temperature of the deep-water - hydrothermal vents, around which water and all heated to 450 degrees Celsius.

3. Davlenie in the Mariana Trench in 1,100 times greater than at sea level. On this dive without special equipment in the trough is instant death.

4. Trench inhabit huge poisonous xenophyophore. Unicellular reach 10 centimeters in diameter!

5. The Mariana Trench is home to shellfish.

6. Champagne hydrothermal vents in the cavity produces a liquid dioxide ugleroda.Na video shows.

7. At a depth of about 414 meters in the Mariana Trench is an active volcano Daikoku. The eruption of the volcano formed a lake of liquid sulfur, the temperature reaches 187 degrees Celsius.

8. In 2011, 4 stone "bridge", the length of each of which is 69 kilometers were found in the Mariana Trench. Scientists suggest that they were formed at the junction of the Pacific and Philippine tectonic plates.

9. The famous director James Cameron was one of the three brave men who committed the descent into the Mariana vpadinu.Eto was in 2012.

10. Mariana Trench - the United States is a national monument and the largest marine protected in the world.

11. Mariana Trench - is not strictly vertical hole in the seabed. The form of the Mariana Trench resembles a crescent length of about 2550 kilometers and an average width of 69 kilometers.

Despite the fact that scientists have made a huge step in the study of the Mariana Trench, the issues have not diminished, and new mysteries that have yet to be solved. And the depth of the ocean is able to keep their secrets. Will people in the near future to open them?

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