Sentences with phrase «down about a kilometer»

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In an unfamiliar town and his battery down to about 60 kilometers of charge left, he used QQ to find a fellow Tesla owner nearby who let him charge his battery.

He estimates that on the fifth planet, TRAPPIST - 1f, liquid water extends down about 200 kilometers — about 20 times deeper than the Mariana Trench on Earth.

As slabs of Earth's crust decend into the mantle, they encounter a zone about 1,100 kilometers down where the mantle rock abruptly becomes stiffer, flowing less easily.

The ICBM was launched from Sain Ni, North Korea, north of Pyongyang, and traveled east about 1,000 kilometers before splashing down in the Sea of Japan, according to the Pentagon.

Real - world data back the claim: Accumulations of calcium carbonate in deep - sea Pacific sediments show that the Pliocene ocean experienced huge shifts at the time, with waters churning all the way from the surface down to about three kilometers deep, as would be expected from a conveyor belt — type circulation.

Even in the ocean's deepest trench, about 11 kilometers down, researchers have discovered abundant life.

A massive concrete structure about 500 kilometers upstream from the mouth of the river diverts 70 % of the flow down the Mississippi and sends 30 % into the Atchafalaya.

In the case of Lop Nor, the source of the waves seemed to be located about six kilometers down — difficult to tunnel to, but not impossible.

The Indonesian supervolcano Toba had one of these eruptions about 73000 years ago, when 2800 cubic kilometers of volcanic ash was ejected into the atmosphere and rained down and covered enormous areas in Indonesia and India.

Without the ice sheet that is now weighing down Greenland's terrain, a river in the canyon would, on average, drop about 30 centimeters for every kilometer it flowed seaward, the team estimates.

Lutz and Falkowski cite one study where unique chemical compounds isolated from an actinomycete strain inhabiting deep - sea sediments about 3.3 kilometers down in the South China Sea have shown potent activities against three cancerous tumor cell lines and also showed antibacterial activities.

Although that difference seems minor, it places some features on Venus about 20 kilometers away from where scientists were expecting — a big deal for future missions looking to set a lander or rover down at a particular site.

When the orbiter had the Sun behind it, it looked straight down at the Venusian clouds and saw the characteristic bull's - eye pattern, about 1,200 kilometers across.

From Pluto in this scale model, to reach the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, you'd have to travel some 2900 kilometers: roughly the distance between Memphis and San Francisco, or about how far you'd have to dig straight down into the Earth before reaching its outer core.

On Friday, the moon's penumbral, or outer, shadow will brush the southern belly of the Earth, initially touching down in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) a southwest of Cape Town, but only managing to encompass the southern and western portion of South Africa, completely missing Lesotho and barely grazing the border of Namibia.

He touched down about 11 kilometers below the Pacific Ocean surface at the Challenger Deep site, a spot previously visited by only a handful of robotic subs.

But this rupture began 70 kilometers down, within the Cocos plate itself, and rose up before stopping at about 40 kilometers» depth, likely at the plate interface.

Then we came down and walked to our mother's sister's place, which was about 70 kilometers, but we could not even use the road.

«This was an opportunity for our artists to exhibit in the region,» said Mollie Dent - Brocklehurst, the director of Pace Gallery in London, which in February opened a branch in the privately owned Chesa Büsin in the village of Zuoz, about 20 kilometers down the valley from St. Moritz.

I would like to see a project here in the midwest, which is very average geothermally -(you have to go down about 10 kilometers to get 200 degrees C)-- a sucessful project here would show that plenty of energy is available everywhere - a city could become energy independent — energy would no longer be traded internationally.

«The school bus won't even come down the road,» said Scott Murphy, whose four - year - old son and seven - year - old daughter now have to walk about a half kilometer through a construction zone to catch the bus.

The gap between the 1981 to 2010 average and the 2016 combined ice extent for December now stands at about 3.0 million square kilometers (1.16 million square miles), down from a peak difference of just over 4 million square kilometers (1.50 million square miles) in mid-November.

«Sea ice melt usually slows down in August to about 60,000 to 70,000 square kilometers a day.

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.