Sentences with phrase «at an altitude of»

Space is generally delineated at an altitude of 62 miles.

«A Russian Su - 35 fighter jet, performing an air cover mission at an altitude of 10,000 meters, swiftly approached the F - 22 from the rear, forcing the American aircraft to leave the area.»

Project Loon aims to deliver high - speed internet connectivity by using giant helium balloons to function as airborne mobile phone towers, floating untethered at an altitude of 20 km.

These small and relatively inexpensive satellites are in polar orbit and rotate around the earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of approximately 800 km.

We are vacationing at an altitude of about 6500 ft. Please let me know what I can do to avoid the dryness.

A member of the brassica family, maca is grown at altitudes of 14,000 feet in an extreme climate of freezing cold, fierce winds and intense sunlight, where no other crops can survive.

Beneficio Rio Negro, Hacienda Rio Negro, Costa Rica Located at the bottom of the valley at an altitude of 3,600 ft, Beneficio Rio Negro is a state - of - the - art mill, combining traditional and modern technologies.

Coffee is grown in the mountainous highlands regions of PNG, often at altitudes of over 1,500 m (5,000 ft).

Karen, I test all of my recipes at an altitude of 5,500 feet, and often make them at 8,500 feet and they turn out very well: --RRB-

Cooking at an altitude of less than 3000 feet may require slightly less cooking time.

This Cacao is grown at an altitude of 11,150 ft in the rem0te mountains of Cuzco, which is the region travelers transit through to reach the sacred valley of Machu Picchu.

If granulated sugar is called for, reduce sugar by 1/4 to 1/2 cups at altitudes of 3,500 - 6,500 feet).

If using granulated sugar, reduce sugar by 1/4 to 1/2 cups at altitudes of 3,500 - 6,500 feet.

I live in Montana at an altitude of around 4,000 ft. Would that make a difference in the way they rise?

Our vineyards and winery are located in the Gualtallary valley in Tupungato, Mendoza at an altitude of 1200 meters (4,000 feet).

The report by the National Transportation Safety Board said the unidentified camper watched the plane struggle at an altitude of about 11,500 feet against strong winds.

Data tables from the Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory show that at 5 p.m. on July 21st, 2015 the sun was at an altitude of 35.9 degrees and an azimuth of 266 degrees.

«Blue jets» move upward from the tops of thunderstorms in a narrow cone and fade away at an altitude of about 25 miles.

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.

Westlake et al. analyzed data from 41 flybys of Titan, some at altitudes of less than 1000 kilometers (621 miles) when Cassini dipped into the upper fringes of its atmosphere.

The flyby will be at an altitude of 3,106 miles (4,999 kilometers).

It had thrown huge amounts of sulfur compounds into the stratosphere (at altitudes of 15 - 50 km) where they spread around the entire globe and significantly weakened solar radiation for several years afterwards.

Winds at an altitude of 30,000 feet carry 20 times as much energy as those near the ground, representing a source of power that could be a fraction of the cost of coal.

ORACLES will also deploy a camera - carrying ER - 2 — a variant of the venerable U-2 spy plane — that will cruise at an altitude of 20 kilometers, providing contextual images.

Each of the GNSS systems employs a constellation of satellites orbiting Earth at an altitude of 20,000 km satellites, working in conjunction with a network of ground stations.

During / the midmorning of March 21, they soared into the history books when their balloon, Breitling Orbiter 3, sped at 130 miles an hour at an altitude of 36,000 feet over an invisible finish line at 9 degrees 27 minutes west longitude in Mauritania.

Spend 40 years by the shores of the Dead Sea, at the lowest elevations on the Earth's surface, and you'll age 48 microseconds less than someone living at sea level, and 750 microseconds less than the residents of La Rinconada in Peru, at an altitude of 5100 metres

At an altitude of 11 kilometres, the spacecraft dropped six more 25 - kilogram blocks to shift its orientation once more, then deployed the largest supersonic parachute ever sent to another planet.

The day before launch, the U.S. had set off a nuclear explosion at an altitude of 400 kilometers just southwest of Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean.

«We found that elevated concentrations of these same chemicals were present at altitudes of 12 km over tropical regions, many thousands of kilometres away from their likely source, and in a region where air is known to be transferred into the stratosphere,» says Oram.

Then there's the geosynchronous Earth orbit regime at altitudes of perhaps 36,000 km.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array, or ALMA, is being constructed at an altitude of 5000 metres on the Atacama desert's Chajnantor plateau, one of the driest places on the planet.

The experiment is the first major test of a piping system that could one day spew sulfate particles into the stratosphere at an altitude of 20 kilometers, supported by a stadium - size hydrogen balloon.

Every 94 minutes or so, twin satellites whip once around Earth at an altitude of 310 miles, taking 30 days to cover the planet's entire surface, then they do it again and again, sensing variations in local gravity.

The lagoon is at an altitude of 3,020 m. and has recently registered the evolution of atmospheric pollution from Neolithic times up to the present day and which, therefore, offer trails of the activities carried out by each of the peoples that have inhabited southern Spain: Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths, Moslems, etc..

A team of scientists find in the Laguna de Rio Seco lagoon, at an altitude of 3,020 m., evidence of atmospheric pollution caused by lead and linked to metallurgical activities from 3,900 years ago (Early Bronze Age).

As New Scientist went to press, the launch on Tuesday from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands appeared to have gone without a hitch, inserting the RazakSAT spacecraft into a near - equatorial orbit at an altitude of 695 kilometres.

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.

About 4,500 residents live in the region, at an altitude of 4,730 meters.

Remote - sensor cams deployed in a Himalayan valley at altitudes of up to 5,000 meters help ecologists gather data on one of the world's most furtive animals

More recently, other well - preserved mummies — not skeletons — have been found at altitudes of 8,000 feet in the valleys of the Altai Mountains.

That contrasts sharply with other ephemeral events at similar altitudes, which glimmer into being when electrical current travels upward from lightning clouds at altitudes of about 10 km.

At altitudes of more than 3 kilometres above the planet's plains, Venusian mountains reflected Magellan's radar signals much more strongly than ordinary rocks, just as if they were covered by ice.

When we talk of extracting wind energy, it's mainly from wind at an altitude of about 100 metres.

One of them broke apart at an altitude of about 18 kilometres, the other sailed on to eventually land in Lake Chebarkul, leaving a 7 - metre - wide hole in the ice.

At an altitude of about 5,200 meters on the Chajnantor Plateau, a Mars - like red expanse in Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place in the world, ALMA's matching antennas swivel in unison as observers collect light from cosmic objects.

According to Archer and Jacobson's bottom - up estimates, which unlike Kleidon's are based on actual measurements of wind speeds, there is 1700 TW of wind power at an altitude of 100 metres over land and sea.

All this allowed the team to conclude that the object, an asteroid 17 to 20 metres across and with a mass of 10,000 tonnes, exploded at an altitude of about 30 kilometres.

He flew just over 275 meters, at an altitude of about five meters, over a lake in Quebec before losing power and falling in.

When he died in 1969 at the age of 73, it was from a heart attack while hiking at an altitude of 9,000 feet in the mountains of Colombia.