Mariana Trench: HROV Nereus takes a sample using a push core

Date: May 31, 2009 Depth: 10,006 meters (6.2 miles). A WHOI-led team successfully brought the newly-built Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle (HROV) Nereus to the deepest part of the world's ocean—the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean. The dive makes the unmanned Nereus the world's deepest-diving vehicle and the first vehicle to explore the Mariana Trench since 1998. To learn more visit http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=33775

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[imupnorth55]

I've often wondered how deep that mud is altogether, as it has 'snowed' down for so many years?

[NebPWN]

cthulu in the background

[a10fjet]

should have added a water jet to basically drill a hole in the mud to see what is beneath it

[TimArmst]

Like a boss

[Loocas77]

We all know more about the moon than about Challenger Deep.

[MrMegacurie]

@lfilipem most of the parts are filled with water...so there is no difference in pressure. Electronic and cams are housed in tungstencarbide

[devon8trillionaire]

look like a whole nother world wow

[Helge129]

@pukhtoonistan007 Lol, Tube Worms, a few kinds of crabs, some fish, and a lot more live down there, near black smokers.

[pukhtoonistan007]

@Helge129 lol ONLY single cellular organisms live down there ! They're called foraminifera

[felcas]

DAMN! They are using Windows 7!!!!!! What if they get a BSOD 10.000 meters under? Call MS Tech Support? HAUAHAUAHAUUAHAUAHAUAHAUA

[lfilipem]

whats the pressure like down there ??

why does it not crush all these ROV's ??

[withoutnameorplace]

try 7m sharks unchanged by evolution since the dinosaur ages. they're scavengers, though.