MARINE BIOLOGY
I’d Like to Be Under the Sea
The Mariana Trench, in the western Pacific Ocean, is the deepest place on Earth. Its lowest point is nearly seven miles (11,000 meters) below the ocean’s surface. Humans have only visited briefly—and carefully, because of the extreme pressure at the bottom of the sea.
To learn more about what life forms can survive that pressure, scientists designed a small research dome to sit in the Mariana Trench. Built on land, the dome
