These new robots will plunge into the ocean’s most alien depths

These new robots will plunge into the ocean’s most alien depths

Post Views: 100 At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, at a place called the Challenger Deep near Guam, 36,000 feet beneath the surface of the ocean, the pressures from the water above reach a crushing eight tons per square inch—about a thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level. Some comparisons ask us…