Sentences with phrase «at about a kilometer»

But despite earlier pollen analysis that pegged the movement of some tree species (that is, average advancement via seed dispersal) at about a kilometer per year after the last ice age, genetic studies have reduced that estimate to a pace closer to a tenth of a kilometer per year, Loarie says.

Not exact matches

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.

Backed by U.S. air support, they've swept west from their bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and captured a huge swath of northeast Syria, estimated by one official at about 17,000 square kilometers.

The $ 85 million Chabahar project, located only about 350 kilometers from Gwadar, is aimed at creating a transit route between India, Iran and Afghanistan.

Soon, though, he graduated to filling up giant, 60,000 - liter fuel tankers at a ranch called «El Caracol,» connected by buried hose to a pipeline about 3 kilometers away.

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.

«It was an abnormal sound that could be heard till at least 3 kilometers [about 2 miles] away.»

«At the place where we stood in hiding,» he says, «the cars would pass at about 40 kilometers an hour, so we had to skate very fast in order to catch theAt the place where we stood in hiding,» he says, «the cars would pass at about 40 kilometers an hour, so we had to skate very fast in order to catch theat about 40 kilometers an hour, so we had to skate very fast in order to catch them.

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.

Hundreds showed up at rallies in Fort Lauderdale, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) away, and in St. Petersburg, 250 miles (400 kilometers) northwest, to demand action on gun - control legislation.

Worshippers at Dariqa mosque in Yartabki village, about 15 kilometers from Funtua were scared when they spotted a black polythene bag inside the mosque in the morning.

Researchers looked at the ratios of two forms of oxygen atoms in the minerals deposited in layers in two stalagmites that had formed in a cave in the Himalayan foothills about 200 kilometers north of New Delhi.

Humans and cheetahs are a case in point: Although the two humans included in the team's study weighed in at 70 kilograms and had an average top speed of about 41 kilometers per hour, the heftiest cheetah weighed about 5 kilograms less but ran nearly three times as fast.

Observations of supernovas suggest that the universe is expanding at 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years).

Slide Show: Space Weather On March 10, 1989, a CME about the size of 36 Earths erupted from the sun's roiling surface and ripped through space at a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

At about 500 kilometers in diameter, Enceladus is a diminutive natural satellite.

Such a voyage is a straight shot westward and would take about 3 weeks of daytime sailing at typical Viking ship speeds (which, for the uninformed, is about 11 kilometers per hour).

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.

And unlike large land mammals in the region, whose dispersal northward was blocked by two broad rivers, these semiaquatic otters and their kin were able to spread unhindered; fossils of a similar species from approximately the same era have been unearthed at another site about 1400 kilometers to the northeast.

At L2, Chang» e 2 is about 932,056 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth.

A model of the flows in Earth's mantle below North America, developed by the scientists, reveals that the mantle material below 200 kilometers flows westward at a velocity of about 4 millimeters per year.

The solar wind is a stream of electrically conducting gas continuously blowing from the Sun's surface into space at about one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

At its closest, G2 will pass about 25 billion kilometers from the event horizon, far enough that it is unlikely to get entirely sucked in.

It forms only at pressures greater than about 24 gigapascals — corresponding to depths between 610 and 800 kilometers, researchers report March 8 in Science.

«It's about two orders of magnitude faster if measured by the number of kilometers a species would have to move,» said P. David Polly, a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Indiana University.

That disagreement may exist, Tharimena says, because to study continental thickness, seismologists had previously analyzed fairly shallow earthquake vibrations that couldn't show Earth's structure in fine detail at depths greater than about 150 kilometers.

In such unique, dense environments, galaxies move at a speed of about 1000 kilometers per second.

Coming within 76,000 kilometers of Jupiter's cloud tops (about one - fifth of the distance between Earth and the moon), Juno completed a 35 - minute firing of its main engine at 11:05 p.m. Eastern.

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 analysis, reported in the 10 August issue of the Astrophysical Journal, showed that cool, denser gas inside the spot sank into the sun at about 5000 kilometers per hour.

Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, died at 45 (elderly in rhino age) Monday at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, about 130 kilometers north of Nairobi.

«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetary bodies.

Based on the wavelengths of spectral lines emitted by the luminous gas surrounding the black hole, the object is traveling at a speed of about 7.5 million kilometers per hour — a rate that would carry it from Earth to the moon in about 3 minutes.

The research, reported in tomorrow's Nature, may help to end a persistent debate about whether semimolten rock from just above the outer core can spark isolated eruptions at the surface, nearly 3000 kilometers away.

Based on data through April 7, 2013, the latest orbital plot places the comet's closest approach to Mars slightly closer than previous estimates, at about 68,000 miles (110,000 kilometers).

Note: The text originally stated that Mira A's velocity (130 kilometers per second) is three times that of a bullet; in fact a bullet travels at about one kilometer per second.

Dione's ocean is about 100 kilometers below the surface and roughly 65 kilometers deep, Mikael Beuthe, a planetary scientist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, and colleagues report.

In our solar system, the habitable zone (green) extends more than 160 million kilometers, from just beyond Venus (at about 110 million kilometers from the sun) to beyond Mars.

Their bones have even turned up in middens, or archaeological trash piles, dating back to at least 4500 years ago on Orkney, an island that lies about 16 kilometers off the northeastern coast of Scotland, and on the Outer Hebrides, a small archipelago located about 25 kilometers off the northwestern coast.

Simultaneously at one of the other carcass sites about three kilometers away, another badger attempted to bury a calf that had been staked out there.

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.

NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped within about 5,000 kilometers of Jupiter's cloud tops on August 27, 2016, giving scientists their first intimate look at the gas giant.

But at 186,00 miles per second (about 18 million kilometers per minute), light would need about 33 minutes to make the trip from Mars to Earth.

This image, shot September 11 as Cassini swung past the moon at a distance of about 119,049 kilometers, shows Titan's lake region near its north pole.

Further certainty about the source of that particular FRB, if it ever comes at all, is likely to only emerge through more detailed follow - up studies using other facilities, such as the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico or the yet - to - be-built Square Kilometer Array in Australia and South Africa.

«If the moon broke apart at 1.2 Mars radii, about 680 kilometers above the surface, it would form a really narrow ring comparable in density to that of one of Saturn's most massive rings,» Mittal said.

At their peak about 150 million years ago, the vents in the Arsia Mons» caldera probably collectively produced about 1 to 8 cubic kilometers of magma every million years, slowly adding to the volcano's size.

Measuring earthquake waves that travel deep inside the planet, the scientists were able to retrieve images of what goes on inside the earth's mantle at a depth of about 3,000 kilometers.

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.

The comet traveled from the most distant region of our solar system called the Oort Cloud and made a close approach at 2:27 p.m. EDT within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the Red Planet.