Life Exists, Even Under Extreme Pressure

Recently, my partner and I sat down to watch a documentary about the Marianas Trench. According to Wikipedia, “The Marianas Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean about 200 kilometers or 124 miles east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth.

The maximum known depth is 10,984 meters (or 6.825 miles) at the southern end of a small slot-shaped valley in its…