How many people dream of catching turtles in the next five oceans in the last nine days.
As scientists spare no effort in exploring space and the ocean, going into the sea is no longer a dream.
Perhaps in people's minds, the sea floor is the home of the little mermaid, full of mysterious beauty. In fact, the deep sea is a dark, quiet, cold, harsh and desolate place.
But what mysterious charm attracts scientists'attention, especially the Mariana Trench, which scientists are eager to explore, and what magical discoveries are there?
First, the God-made terrain endowed by nature.
The Mariana Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean, east of the Mariana Islands. Geologists love it and want to explore its unknown topography.
As geoscientists roam the underwater world of the Mariana Trench, we will find that it was formed 60 million years ago, and its topography is different from our imagination.
We found that the Mariana Trench is curved. Most of the water is 8,000 meters deep. The deepest part of the trench is 1,1034 meters, which is enough to submerge the entire Himalayas.
While we appreciate the abyss of the seabed, there are seamounts standing in front of us from time to time. We will also find deep sea trestles between trenches, which are formed by the inclination of seamounts. We're walking in the deepest part of the earth. It's amazing.
Second, awesome deep-sea creatures.
Biologists love it and want to explore unknown creatures in the deep sea. Let's go all the way down with the biologists. Below 100 meters of the ocean, there is a world of silence and light.
In this mysterious and strange sea world, everything is unknown. When we reach 1000 meters, we can also see well-known fish. The deeper we go, the less fish there are.
When we reached 4,000 meters, scientists believed that this should be the limit of marine life, only sperm whales can break through 4,000 meters.
But in this depth, we found new types of jellyfish, as well as beautiful purple sea cucumbers.
We also found glittering new fish swimming around us. That's because as the depth of the ocean increases, the visual ability of deep-sea organisms has deteriorated and evolved into light-emitting organs.
These luminous organs can be used to illuminate, attract partners, or induce food. We can only sigh at the wonder of the world.
By the time we reached 8000 meters, we had discovered 18 centimeters of new fish in this desolate and strange world.
This is in the deep sea below 8000 meters, it bears 800 atmospheric pressure, even steel tanks will be crushed, but it is free to swim.
This new species of deep-sea fish, let us understand what is "natural selection, survival of the fittest." To adapt to deep-sea pressure, the spine has become thin and can bend.
Some people think that this kind of fish is the best proof of its rigidity and flexibility.
We went back to the bottom of the Mariana Trench at 10,000 meters, and we found giant amoebas in large numbers.
This 10-centimeter-long single-celled organism has lived on Earth for hundreds of millions of years.
Perhaps in the face of the earth's disaster, the survival of this primitive single-celled organism is not necessarily a high-intelligence organism.
Third, the Mariana Trench is the Earth's climate regulator.
Environmentalists love this, of course, to explore the Mariana Trench's ability to regulate the Earth's climate. Not only did they find that there was a lot of carbon here, it was a huge carbon dioxide collection tank and a converter of the earth's biological waste. Also found here is the scene of disharmony, unexpectedly found at the bottom of the trench a large piece of plastic cloth. This reminds scientists that it is urgent to study degradable plastics in order to reduce the pollution of marine plastics.
Fourth, the Mariana Trench is rich in mineral resources.
Countries love the Mariana Trench, the most fundamental purpose is the rich mineral resources here. The Mariana Trench is rich in oil and gas, rare metals, flammable ice and other mineral resources.
In fact, the exploration of seabed mineral resources by various countries is also to save the family for future generations. Seabed resources are the common inheritance property of mankind. When countries discover the seabed of mineral deposits, they can preferentially select one of them for their own use. Of course, this is subject to the application of the International Seabed Authority for permission. This means that whoever owns the ocean has the resources.
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