Sentences with phrase «flows of a few miles»

IRIS can resolve solar features only 150 miles in size, has a temporal resolution of a few seconds, and has a spectral resolution capable of measuring plasma flows of a few miles per second.

Not exact matches

Images from Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrometer (UVIS), obtained from an unusually close range of about six Saturn radii, provided a look at the changing patterns of faint emissions on scales of a few hundred miles (kilometers) and tied the changes in the auroras to the fluctuating wind of charged particles blowing off the sun and flowing past Saturn.

Many proposed ocean energy projects rely on turbines that require sustained strong currents, but Bernitsas's device can run efficiently on water flows of just a few miles per hour.

But the rapids classification is interesting because each rapid gets a classification based on also the water flow at any time because the flow of the Colorado River is determined by the water that's released from the Glen Canyon Dam which is a few miles upstream from where we put in at Lee's Ferry.

Radar observations find that about 80 percent of the surface is covered by lava flows with a few Australia - size uplands of two to five km (1.2 to 3.1 miles) high, and there are large shield volcanoes that rise above the plains as high as 11 km (6.8 miles)-- higher than Mount Everest's eight km (five miles) above Earth sea - level.

Ice does not conduct heat well, and a rise of a few degrees in the air would take thousands of years to affect a glacier base a mile away, where it could lubricate the flow.