Sentences with phrase «at a mile above»

While the 228i is down on power compared to the 2015 Audi S3, the 228i Coupe proves its worth in straight - line acceleration at a mile above sea level.

E.g., take Denver Colorado — the troposphere starts at a mile above sea level, where the ground ends.

Not exact matches

FORT BLISS, Texas — Three public affairs officers and I found the command center shown above about a mile from one of many dirt roads along the training grounds at Fort Bliss.

The platform would orbit 200 miles above Earth, offering six guests 384 sunrises and sunsets as they race around the planet for 12 days at incredibly high speeds.

NHTSA and NTSB said Brown did not apply the brakes, and his last action was to set the cruise control at 74 miles per hour (119 kph), less than 2 minutes before the crash — above the 65 - mph speed limit.

Hansen explained that Juno will fly too close to the storm — about 5,600 miles above it — to capture the whole thing in one view at that point.

Hansen explained that Juno would fly close to the storm — about 5,600 miles above it — to capture the whole thing in one view at that point.

The International Space Station (ISS) is an ultimate target for adventurous photographers, since it orbits 250 miles above Earth while moving at 17,500 miles per hour.

The missile flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed in the sea east of Japan, but it crested at a remarkable 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) above the Earth's surface, making it the highest and longest - lasting flight North Korea has completed to date.

While rocketing 60 miles above Earth at three times the speed of sound, the lucky brothers Winklevii will glimpse a killer view of our planet while experiencing weightlessness for a few minutes.

If you meet the above condition, this card can earn you far more United miles — at least indirectly.

At present, commercial ventures have gone as far out as geosynchronous orbit, the telecommunication satellites that fly 22,236 miles above the Earth.

corzola is very good at giving us good control when we are up against teams that stand off our midfield, but if we up against a team that presses against us we need power to break through and press back, i saw pogba last night and he was miles above all the players on the pitch, when he came on just ran the whole midfield on his own, wenger should blow all of his next summers budget signing pogba, even if it takes everything we got the kid is the best young c / m in the world atm.

Likewise the comments above, nothing wrong at face value, but the again he's hardly played, let alone been a frequent contributor......... and is a mile away from being what he aspires to be ie a consistent contributor.

penaldo is all what an all time great is.Even at 32 he hasn't hang up his boots.he still miles above great players at their peak.Even henry at his peak wouldn't match penaldo now

With five goals already this season, David Dunn is by far and away Blackburn's most prolific goalscorer at current, a country mile above most of his team - mates.

In December the five of us traveled to the Vail Mountain Lodge and Spa for a weekend of skiing for the big kids and my husband, and mountain adjustment for baby and I. Even though we live at 5280, a mile above sea level, it's still an adjustment for everyone, especially when the air is icy and crisp.

Replicating Latimer's vantage point in a similar vehicle, starting back more than.2 miles, at no point in the approach is the backdrop to the traffic light above the horizon.

We did a full analysis of Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator, an organism we found again and again in different mines in South Africa at the greatest depths — never above 2 kilometers (1.2 miles)-- that made up 99.9 percent of the DNA in some of our samples.

The spacecraft made its 127th and final close approach to Titan on April 21 at 11:08 p.m. PDT (2:08 a.m. EDT on April 22), passing at an altitude of about 608 miles (979 kilometers) above the moon's surface.

ISS Spotter makes it easy for you to spot the International Space Station (ISS) when it flies by, above our heads, at almost 5 miles a second!

And is it really a less natural way to augment my life than flying 38,000 feet above the planet at 500 miles per hour?

«Multiple analyses from many institutions around the Earth confirm that average CO2 is above 400 ppm,» he said, adding that that fact remains true «even at the South Pole,» thousands of miles from significant carbon emission sources.

One of the unexpected consequences of the October 28 flare was a fivefold increase in ozone - destroying nitric oxide at 70 miles above Earth's surface.

Some 69 miles above Earth, in a darkening void, customers will experience a few minutes of weightlessness and gaze out the window at the curvature of their planetary home.

the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain of floating ice which flows down from the great mountains of the interior and covers the southern part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which form the mountainous embayment at the head of Ross Sea.

The true outer limit is at least 500 times farther out, about 5 trillion miles beyond Pluto, where the sun looks like nothing more than a bright star and temperatures hover just a few degrees above absolute zero.

Young engineers in a NASA - style mission control room follow a GeoEye satellite, which is at that moment hurtling around Earth some 423 miles above the ground.

Floating at an altitude of around 50 miles, they are only seen well after sunset on summer nights above 50 degrees latitude in either hemisphere and have been increasing in frequency and brilliance with each passing year.

At the time of perijove, Juno was about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) above the planet's cloud tops.

Once it reached its transfer orbit, peaking at 22,000 miles above Earth, the craft unfolded a small pair of solar panels, and its engine began producing a dim blue glow, gently lifting Smart - 1 into higher and higher orbits around Earth.

ICON's position 350 miles above Earth will enable it to study the atmosphere in profile, giving scientists an unprecedented look at the state of the ionosphere at a range of altitudes.

Whizzing 200 miles above the Martian surface at 2.2 miles per second, it will pick out finer surface details on Mars than commercial satellites can show us on Earth, where cameras have to ride twice as far above the ground to avoid our planet's thicker atmosphere.

At its highest point, or apogee, some 232,000 miles above Earth (58.7 earth radii), it avoids the hazards posed by the Van Allen radiation belts, which extend from about 621 to 37,282 miles above the surface.

In the tropics at heights more than 10 miles above the surface, the prevailing winds alternate between strong easterlies and strong westerlies roughly every other year.

When the spacecraft is at the lowest point closest to Earth at 67,000 miles (17.0 earth radii), it remains well above geosynchronous orbit 22,236 miles above the equator where most communications satellites operate.

«This year, our balloon - borne instruments measured nearly 100 percent ozone depletion in the layer above South Pole Station, Antarctica, that was 14 to 19 kilometers (9 to 12 miles) above Earth's surface,» said Bryan Johnson, a researcher at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.

At its nearest approach to Vesta, it circled the asteroid once every 4.3 hours, cruising as low as 106 miles above the surface.

A hundred years later Columbia, with its crew of seven, flew 200,000 feet above Texas, meeting the atmosphere at 12,500 miles per hour and on schedule for a touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 16 minutes later.

Still, at altitudes above roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) lunar tides have been detected in winds, temperature, airglow emissions and a number of ionospheric parameters.

Seen from ~ 500 miles above the Earth's surface, you can see what he is talking about: a sprawling network of humanity stretching inward from coastlines, following rivers, tracing old trade routes, and in some cases ending abruptly at borders (who said there are no borders from space?).

Second stage capture was completed at 10:06 a.m. EDT as the station flew 260 miles above Brazil.

After checking in at our hotel, take a stroll or relax by the pool, enjoying great views of the cone - shaped volcano rising more than a mile (1,600 m) above sea level.

In February, about 500 miles above Siberia, a U.S. communications satellite smashed into a defunct Russian orbiter at 25,000 miles per hour, annihilating them both.

In the water above natural oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, where oil and gas bubbles rise almost a mile to break at the surface, scientists have discovered something unusual: phytoplankton, tiny microbes at the base of the marine food chain, are thriving.

A dying star at the center expels gas at 100 miles per second, forcing the nebula to expand rapidly and to cool to 2 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero.

Scientists at McMurdo Station detected unusual atmospheric waves with an altitude between 30 to 115 kilometers (20 to 70 miles) above Antarctica in 2011.

TCAS 2 creates a «surveillance bubble» stretching about 30 nautical miles around a plane, and at least 3000 feet above and below it.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.

At about six miles above the surface, it starts bending toward the poles.