Sentences with phrase «about kilometer wide»

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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.

This view shows Alga Crater's central peak, which is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) wide within the 12 - mile (19 - kilometer) diameter of this southern - hemisphere crater.

The fact that the 16,000 - kilometer - wide spot is warmer at the bottom than at the top could help explain the storm's screaming wind speeds of about 120 meters per second.

The hexagon, known since the 1980s, is about 30,000 kilometers wide with a massive hurricane centered on the north pole (SN: 1/11/14, p. 10).

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.

The Dark Zone of Greenland ice sheet is a large continuous region on the western flank of the ice sheet; it is some 400 kilometers wide stretching about 100 kilometres up from the margin of the ice.

Over the course of 30 days or so, possibly less, about 93,000 cubic kilometers of water — almost 80 % of the volume of all free - flowing fresh water on Earth today — carved the 15 - km - wide, 2.5 - km - deep Aram Valley.

But in 1992 a pair of astronomers turned up 1992 QB1, a body about 200 kilometers wide circling the sun at a distance of about 6.5 billion kilometers, well beyond Neptune's orbit.

«For a period of several weeks, wide areas of the Arctic were covered by polar stratospheric clouds between about 14 and 26 kilometers height.

And by drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, scientists hope to settle ideas about how such «peak rings,» hallmarks of the largest impact craters, take shape.

Measuring about 250 kilometers long by 50 kilometers wide, Vostok ranks among the world's largest freshwater bodies.

Gale crater is about 96 miles (154 kilometers) wide and has a mountain at its center that rises higher, from the crater floor up, than Mount Rainer near Seattle.

That pattern would indicate that the largest of the plates should be about as wide as the depth of the earth's mantle, or about 3,000 kilometers.

One of these disturbances is an arc about 20 percent brighter than its surroundings, 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) long and 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide.

Almost immediately, scientists began speculating about the bright spot in the middle of 90 - kilometer - wide Occator crater, which at 80 million years old is geologically fresh.

At 43 pixels wide, the new images are more than 30 percent higher in resolution than those taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 and 2004 at a distance of over 150 million miles (about 241 million kilometers).

Arecibo, a 305 - meter - wide radio telescope located about 95 kilometers west of San Juan, is the second largest radio telescope in the world.

The jets are theorized to be no more than about 300 kilometers wide, and when they reach the surface, they produce hot spots.

In Antarctica's cold, where fish have natural antifreeze in their blood, McClintock accompanied other researchers as they angled for giant Antarctic toothfish by dropping a 450 - meter - long line through a meter - wide hole drilled in the sea ice about five kilometers offshore.

The researchers were looking at rocks from the Ries crater (inset) of southern Germany, a 24 - kilometer - wide depression formed about 14.6 million years ago by a meteorite crashing into Earth with the force of 1.8 million Hiroshima bombs.

Vesta also grew large enough to survive a massive battering about a billion years ago that formed the 500 - kilometer - wide Rheasilvia impact crater and its 22 - kilometer - high central mound (above).

New Horizons, meanwhile, is on course for its next stop: 2014 MU69, a 50 - kilometer - wide hunk of ice about 1.6 billion kilometers past Pluto (SN Online: 11/5/15).

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

It's the highest - resolution movie yet obtained of the giant hexagon, which is about 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) wide and has been swirling for at least 30 years, researchers said.

Phobos is about 14 miles wide (22 kilometers), making it the largest Martian satellite.

Recent discovery by Davy et al (2010) of kilometer - wide (ten 8 - 11 kilometer and about 1,000 1 - kilometer - wide features) eruption craters on the Chatham Rise seafloor off New Zealand adds further ammunition to the Methane Gun hypothesis.

The asteroid that created this crater was about 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide and hit the Earth 65 million years ago.

Occator itself is 60 miles (90 kilometers) in diameter, and its central pit, covered by this bright material, measures about 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide and 0.3 miles (0.5 kilometers) deep.

The heart - shaped pit is about 2.3 kilometers (1.4 miles) at its widest.

Nelson and Grand's team gathered seismic data using EarthScope's USArray, which showed a «long, thin, sloping zone» that measured about 72 kilometers long and 55 kilometers wide.

Chariklo's two rings are about 7 and 3 kilometers wide.

The Zwinger Palace houses the famous Old Masters Gallery with the «Sistine Madonna «and Dresden, about 30 kilometers north of the border with the Czech Republic, lies in a wide basin in the upper Elbe valley that's long been popular as a place

About a kilometer in height and nearly half as wide, is Zaslavsky's tower which is

Recent discovery by Davy et al (2010) of kilometer - wide (ten 8 — 11 kilometer and about 1,000 1 - kilometer - wide features) eruption craters on the Chatham Rise seafloor off New Zealand adds further ammunition to the Methane Gun hypothesis.

Sure, questions can be raised about what happens in a tank several kilometers high and with walls wide enough that the light doesn't strike its sides on the way down, but deciding you won't be happy with any other evidence until someone builds this improbable experiment is simply balmy.

The circulation cells are large — about 10,000 kilometers wide along the equator — and occur intraseasonally, roughly every 30 to 70 days.

Such a cloud would be about 11 million - billion pounds (5 million - billion kilograms) in mass and about 1,600 miles (2,600 kilometers) wide.