Friday, June 5, 2009

Robot Probes 11,000 metres Ocean Depth

A robotic submersible called Nereus has reached the deepest-known part of the ocean.

Marine researchers in the US say Nereus spent 10 hours in the Challenger Deep abyss in the western Pacific.

At nearly 11,000 metres it is the deepest abyss on Earth, with pressures 1,000 times greater than at the surface.

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