![]() The Mariana Trench was formed through a process called subduction. If you cut Mount Everest off at sea level and put it on the ocean bottom in the Challenger Deep, there would still be over a mile of water over the top of it. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, east of the Philippines, the Mariana Trench is a crescent-shaped scar in Earth’s crust that measures more than 1,500 miles (2,550 kilometers) long and 43 miles (69 kilometers) wide on average. While thousands of people have summited Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, fewer than a handful have managed to explore our planet’s deepest point, a location known as the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench.
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