Sentences with phrase «hundreds of metres wide»

But it creates a column of glowing gas tens of kilometres long and hundreds of metres wide.

Not exact matches

Drillers pump a mixture of treacly gel and sandy grains down the pipe at high pressure, and this creates a disc - shaped crack hundreds of metres high and across, but only 1 centimetre wide.

In Washington DC, several hundred people — a mix of NASA employees, staffers from the US Congress and parents with children — gathered in the atrium of the Newseum to watch a live feed of the impact on a 10 - metre - wide screen.

Standard grenade launchers can fire it at targets hundreds of metres away, marking vehicles and people over a wide radius from the point of impact.

In particular a strip of land down the eastern side of Dunwich, in places a hundred metres wide, was eroded by the sea.