Marianas Trench FlyThrough

The Mariana Trench may be the deepest place in the world's oceans, but these videos have the vertical dimension strongly exaggerated to further enhance the visual effect. The maximum depth of the trench is a little greater than 11 kilometers, but its width is over 50 kilometers. The color scheme chosen is arbitrary but represents a typical color for the ocean bottom.

These animations were produced by Dr. Peter Sloss of NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), Marine Geology and Geophysics Division, from actual digital bathymetric data archived by, and available through NGDC.

Computerized digital images and associated databases are available from the National Geophysical Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/

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[nicelittlemint]

This is really cool! How do you do that with Google Earth? I tried, but couldn't....:(

[YouSirAreNoob]

It's not as close as you might think

[0smoke0]

It's not google earth, it's a NOAA animation, try googling them :-)

[stix471]

@lionlambcountry its actually very very cold...

[Anarchy05]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

[dragoneragonXD]

@nicelittlemint Google has this when you download Google Earth. I am pretty sure he didn't do it. I tried too. If only you could though, it would be awesome (:

[shauna5rose5]

that is also the name of the best band ever

[lionlambcountry]

good bnad. and like the water must be boiling down thee, if it's so close to the center fo the earth, lol. sorry geek moment