Sentences with phrase «about a kilometer across»

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In June, Shanghai opened the country's first intelligent vehicle pilot zone, where its trialed about 200 vehicles across nine miles (15 kilometers) of test roads in a closed zone at Shanghai's international automobile city, the government said in a statement.

Barreling across the desert straightaway, air horns no doubt at the ready, Miller and Lange's Liberty Belle broke just about every record for such behemoths: in seven runs they smashed various standing - start and flying - start marks at a quarter mile, a half kilometer, a full kilometer and a mile — 14 in all, each of which has been certified by the U.S. Auto Club as a national record.

Most of the plains, which are visible across the whole moon, seem to originate from debris spewed from the Orientale basin, a 930 - kilometer - wide bowl in the moon's southern hemisphere that formed about 3.8 billion years ago.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

Drawing on his data from the Hubble observations, Li estimates that the nucleus — the solid body of the comet itself — is no more than about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) across, smaller than what many astronomers initially expected for such an energetic comet.

In 2018, just next year folks, let's hope, NASA is going to be launching its James Webb Space Telescope, a giant piece of kit that's going to be about one and a half million kilometers out there beyond the orbit of the moon, and it's going to be able to look at these planets as they transit across the face of the star.

The pocket, about 250 kilometers across, conducts heat from the core into the hot - spot plume, he believes.

From 1994 to 2003, the overall loss of ice shelf volume across the continent was negligible: about 25 cubic kilometers per year (plus or minus 64).

Hubble photographed exquisite details in Jupiter's atmosphere, as small as about 80 miles (129 kilometers) across.

The new, high - resolution map of the mantle — the hot rock below Earth's crust but above the planet's iron core — not only shows these connections for many hotspots on the planet, but reveals that below about 1,000 kilometers the plumes are between 600 and 1,000 kilometers across, up to five times wider than geophysicists thought.

Measuring about 68 miles (110 kilometers) across, the caldera is deep enough to hold the entire volume of water in Lake Huron, and then some.

A team of astronomers led by James Bauer, a research professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, found that there are about seven times more long - period comets measuring at least 1 kilometer across than previously predicted.

GRACE has the sensitivity to pick up a puck about a centimeter thick and 400 kilometers [half an inch and 250 miles] across.»

The crater is about 14 miles (22 kilometers) across.

If the original asteroids were bigger than about 20 kilometers across — and there's no reason to think they weren't — decaying radioactive elements inside them would have made the rock hotter than that.

As a comparison, annual mass migrations of animals across the Serengeti plains of Africa cover about 800 kilometers.

The scientists generated the enormous dataset by running NCAR's Weather Research and Forecasting model at an extremely high resolution of about 4 kilometers (about 2.5 miles), across the entire contiguous U.S. Typical climate models only resolve to about 100 kilometers (about 62 miles)-- not nearly the detail available in the new dataset.

The far ultraviolet images revealed that the front edges of the shimmering auroral curtains, which can stretch 1000 kilometers tall on Saturn, raced across the planet's surface at more than 4 kilometers per second — about three times faster than the planet rotates, the researchers report in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

And the structure could have spread to about 100,000 kilometers across or more, much larger than its original 13,000 kilometers or so.

Such discs, known as quasar accretion disks, are typically about 100 billion kilometers across, and most lay billions of light - years away.

The planet's orbit measures about 600,000 kilometers across, only 50 % more than the average distance from Earth to the moon.

Researchers have long known of smaller flows called granules (which last a few minutes and are typically about 1000 kilometers across) and supergranules (which last about 1 day and are usually about 30,000 km across).

«Capturing an object this small, about half a kilometer across, at such a tremendous distance with this clarity is truly amazing,» said Michael Busch, a research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and a member of the observing team.

Even though the tiny island chain is only about 10 kilometers across, researchers hadn't realized the extent of the penguin population, says study coauthor Heather Lynch, an ecologist at Stony Brook University in New York.

Several kilometers below the largest dark spot on our satellite's near side, researchers have discovered a giant rectangle thought to be the remnants of a geological plumbing system that spilled lava across the moon about 3.5 billion years ago.

Each splotch is about 500 kilometers across and covers roughly the same area as the state of Missouri.

The team found that the five - week eruption supplied enough dissolved iron to increase the number of phytoplankton cells within a region of the North Atlantic stretching across 570,000 square kilometers — or 220,000 square miles, about the size of France.

In August 2009, the orbiting Cassini spacecraft caught sight of 20 - meter - high corrugations rippling across 1500 kilometers of Saturn's inner C ring (regular, narrow bright bands, above), which is only about 10 meters thick.

When the orbiter had the Sun behind it, it looked straight down at the Venusian clouds and saw the characteristic bull's - eye pattern, about 1,200 kilometers across.

When the Chicxulub asteroid slammed into Earth about 66 million years ago, it obliterated 80 percent of Earth's species, blasted out a crater 200 kilometers across, and signaled an abrupt end to the Cretaceous Period.

The largest, called Quaoar, is about 1250 kilometers across — nearly half as wide as Pluto (ScienceNOW, 7 October 2002).

The image is about 200 kilometers (125 miles) across.

It spans about 360 kilometers east to west, from the central part of South Carolina, across all of Georgia and into eastern Alabama.

The Argyre basin is about 600 kilometers across with a rugged rim of about 500 kilometers in width.

The storm's eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 mph (530 kph).

They found that the red giant's surface has just a few convective cells, or granules, that are each about 75 million miles (120 million kilometers) across.

«With this new map, we've been able to see gravity anomalies as small as about 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) across, and we've determined the crustal thickness of Mars with a resolution of around 120 kilometers (almost 75 miles),» Genova said in the NASA statement.

In this map, surface features as small as about 100 kilometers (60 miles) across are clearly resolved.

By picking up DeeDee's heat signature, the ALMA data suggests the object is about 635 kilometers across, about two - thirds the diameter of dwarf planet Ceres.

The area of ground visible in the images is about six - tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) across.

Ceres, at about 1000 kilometers across, is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

What most people don't realise about the Wild Coast is that it only spreads across 300 kilometers of coastline between Port Edward and Port Elizabeth.

Fire erupted across a ridge line just to the northwest of Sala, Sweden and about 120 kilometers north of Stockholm.

The scientists generated the enormous dataset by running NCAR's Weather Research and Forecasting model at an extremely high resolution of about 4 kilometers (about 2.5 miles), across the entire contiguous U.S. Typical climate models only resolve to about 100 kilometers (about 62 miles)- not nearly the detail available in the new dataset.

The width of the distribution of Outlooks remains narrower for the second month in a row compared to last year: the interquartile spread across all types of contributions is 0.5 million square kilometers, which is a decrease by about 60 % since last year.

In fact, across the globe, there are about one million square kilometers more sea ice than 35 years ago, which is when satellite measurements began.

Tabular icebergs can be more than 110 kilometers across and 300 meters high (with about 90 % of their height underwater).

They believe those who work for the government when they say, «we have modeled your future;» and, then the people don't understand when they learn that the, Global warming computer models are confounded as Antarctic... (It's unprecedented: across the globe, there are about one million square kilometers more sea ice than 35 years ago, which is when satellite measurements began).