Sentences with phrase «drop by altitude»

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One interesting aspect to the Thursday sell - off is that Netflix — one of the main beneficiaries of the cord - cutting movement by millennial audiences — also lost altitude, dropping by almost 8 %.

Airdrops of combat and medical goods, for instance, may soon be handled by the Onyx autonomously guided parafoil system, a gliding robotic sail that guides cargo dropped from aircraft at altitudes of up to 25,000 feet and possibly higher.

I added specificity to the altitude drop by preceding it with a dynamic step up.

At an altitude of about 125 kilometers above the surface, measurements by the Venus Express probe have shown, the temperature drops to an amazingly low -175 °C, cool enough in theory for carbon dioxide ice or snow to form.»

Nothing explains this unusually cold and snowy weather more than the fact that there was snow on the ground for the first 932 miles of the trip, only when we dropped into a long mountain valley with an altitude that was less than 500m (1600ft) was there not snow by the road.

Condensation at altitude then causes a pressure drop which is by far the most significant driver of vertical motion — bouyancy (over the ocean) is like the starter motor which sets the main engine in motion.

The strong drop of temperature with altitude requires cooling of the upper troposphere by emission of IR from GHGs.