Sentences with phrase «centimeters across»

The two rocks just below the middle of the image on the right are smaller than they may appear: the left - hand one is 15 centimeters across, and the one in the center is 4 centimeters across, at a distance of about 85 centimeters from Huygens.

He later built a tiny model just a few centimeters across.

To the north, around the Balkh Oasis bordering Uzbekistan, UChicago's Anthony Lauricella and Emily Hammer, now at the University of Pennsylvania, examined extremely high resolution satellite and aerial images that can spot subtle changes in topography as small as 10 centimeters across and 50 centimeters high.

Withers has now calculated that most of the particles would be between 0.1 and 10 centimeters across.

But the material has been tough to manufacture in anything larger than flakes a few centimeters across.

A black, diamond - spackled pebble just a few centimeters across is the remainder of a comet that struck Earth almost 29 million years ago — making it the first direct evidence of a comet exploding in our atmosphere, scientists say.

The human retina is a patch of nervous tissue in the back of the eyeball half a millimeter thick and approximately two centimeters across.

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.

Impressions left by a large claw on the innermost toe on the dinosaur's front foot (the analog of the human thumb) indicate that the still - unknown species was located near the base of the sauropod family tree, and the sizes of the footprints — in some cases 70 centimeters across — suggest that the behemoths grew to reach 15 meters in length and weighed up to 10 metric tons, the researchers report online today in the Scottish Journal of Geology.

Most paper cuts I'd seen or suffered were straight slices less than a centimeter across.

The finding is the first example of a natural electrical circuit bridging a macroscopic gap, in this case more than a centimeter across, to mediate a biogeochemical process on either side.

Smooth and polished, roughly 1 centimeter across — the size of a plain M&M candy — the pebbles couldn't have been transported by anything except water.

They were amazed to find that the shells, once dissolved in dilute acid, released intact thin sheets of shell proteins more than a centimeter across.

Cosmic dust is mainly composed of silicon, carbon and aluminium, in grains as small as a millionth of a centimeter across.

Not exact matches

The second idea argues that swarms of centimeter - sized pebbles almost instantaneously collapsed under their collective weight to create planetesimals hundreds of kilometers across.

Organisms that surprisingly survived the harsh 7,000 - kilometer journey across the Pacific Ocean on 634 items of tsunami debris ranged from 52 - centimeter - long fish (a Western Pacific yellowtail amberjack) to microscopic single - celled protists.

Even so, the «flic - flac» spider, Cebrennus rechenbergi — famous because it can cartwheel quickly across the desert — builds a tunnel 25 centimeters deep and uses it daily for shelter from Morocco's hot sun.

«When we broke the thousand - watt barrier by sending energy across the 12 - centimeter gap, we were just exhilarated,» Afridi said.

The difference is critical: a rise of one centimeter of snow across all of East Antarctica is the equivalent of 35 billion metric tons, but a rise of one centimeter of ice is the equivalent of 92 billion metric tons.

Known as the «iron man,» a 24 - centimeter - high sculpture was likely created from a piece of the Chinga meteorite that was strewn across the border region between Russia and Mongolia between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago

He's fascinated that this branching pattern holds true across orders of magnitude, whether that's nanometers for neurons, centimeters for ink, or meters for a tree branch.

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

In a new study, a group of scientists from ITMO University and Giricond Research Institute put forward a novel WPT system that can maintain up to 80 % transfer efficiency across a distance of 20 centimeters.

UNDER WATER More than 60 centimeters of rain inundated parts of Louisiana (Baton Rouge shown) in August 2016, driving river gauges across the state to near - record levels and costing more than $ 10 billion in damages.

Philae project manager Stephan Ulamec explained how, after impact on Wednesday, the lander rebounded at 38 centimeters per second, traveling a kilometer up in space, and a kilometer laterally across the surface.

The dark matter was about 1000 light - years across and had an even density equivalent to four hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter.

This means that all particles — from a few centimeters to a few tens of meters across — rotate very slowly, otherwise they would bake evenly on all sides.

The igneous rock was fine - grained with small crystals of various kinds, except every once in a while where a relative giant crystal — 1 centimeter or more across — intruded.

Ter Steege et al. (1243092) report the results from a network of 1170 tree plots arrayed across the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield, in which the species of all trees with stem diameter > 10 centimeters were identified.

Now fossilized and faint, each one is roughly a centimeter wide, like a fingertip's errant brush across the surface of a drying clay pot.

A king crab 50 centimeters in diameter was picking its way across the rocks, closer to Antarctica's shallow waters than has ever been spotted before.

Goal is to develop a microscope that can image structure - function relations across multiple length and time scales, from nano - to centimeters and from femtoseconds to hours.

About 5 % of people develop large nodules, more than a half inch across (about 1 centimeter).

This involves clipping off, or «tipping» the upper 1 centimeter of the cat's right ear so that it's straight across instead of coming up into a point.

According to the model predictions, Sandy dropped about 3 centimeters of sediment across the continental shelf just north of the Delaware Bay.