Sentences with phrase «in altitude about»

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Musk, 43, also has publicly talked about using satellites to provide Internet access to remote parts of the Earth, a mission that Google also has embraced in a separate project that relies on high - altitude balloons.

Gionta had little idea at the time that Rutan was thinking about the ultimate in high - altitude aviation: manned space flight.

If you've spent any amount of time in an aircraft about to take off — gazing out the window at the tarmac, thinking about the cold beverage you'll have at altitude — you've probably spent at least a passing moment wondering how exactly manufacturers make sure the iron birds don't break.

Any large spacecraft that dips below an altitude of about 125 miles has just a few days left in orbit, Gossner said — and that's roughly where Tiangong - 1 is drifting.

I live in the Rocky Mountains outside of Denver at about 8300 ft.. It took me several years to «fix» my low altitude recipes for up here.

There are so many stories out there about baking fails in high altitude, and I didn't want to risk a deflated cake.

Continue as directed - except bake about 30 minutes (35 minutes in high altitudes).

Just to comment about altitude... I'm at over 4500 feet in Arizona and had no problem with the dough.

I read with interest the comments about altitude...... I'm in Sydney and facing different problems — 100F and 90 % humidity!

It usually takes me about 2 hours to bake a batch of granola @ 300 (remembering that I live in CO at high altitude, so things may dry out quicker here:)-RRB-.

To Annie Dru I would like to make this bread in western Canada, but we are very dry with very high altitude (i am about 5000 near a ski hill which is higher than normal for my area) and am having a tough time with breads especially gluten free.

Not sure about gluten - free, but you can see our recommedations for wheat breads in our FAQs tab (above) and click on High - altitude baking: How do I adjust the recipes for high - altitude?

I live in Colorado at an altitude at about 5,000 feet.

Excited about this recipe — the cookies turned out beautiful in high altitude - as you know can be tricky baking anything!

It's pretty well - known as this tiny mountain village that remains ultra cool even though it's relatively far inland because it's about a mile up in altitude.

What is Arod talking about altitude in AZ?

«Blue jets» move upward from the tops of thunderstorms in a narrow cone and fade away at an altitude of about 25 miles.

About 4,500 residents live in the region, at an altitude of 4,730 meters.

Although no one is sure what triggers their formation, one theory is that cosmic dust, or debris from burned - up meteors, seed the ice particles, which is plausible because meteors typically are incinerated in the upper mesosphere at about the same altitude where these clouds form.

One of them broke apart at an altitude of about 18 kilometres, the other sailed on to eventually land in Lake Chebarkul, leaving a 7 - metre - wide hole in the ice.

At an altitude of about 5,200 meters on the Chajnantor Plateau, a Mars - like red expanse in Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place in the world, ALMA's matching antennas swivel in unison as observers collect light from cosmic objects.

As Dawn continues the final phase of its mission, in which it will descend to lower altitudes than ever before, scientists will continue learning about the origins of the bright material on Ceres and what gave rise to the enigmatic features in Occator.

He flew just over 275 meters, at an altitude of about five meters, over a lake in Quebec before losing power and falling in.

One in four tourists to the U.S. state of Colorado, for example, gets altitude sickness each year, costing the state about $ 300 million in lost revenue, Roach says.

Geostationary satellites, which stay fixed in one spot at an altitude of about 22,000 miles, transmit near - continuous views of the earth's surface.

At low altitudes, about half the energy of such a bomb is released in the air blast, 35 percent as heat and 15 percent as nuclear radiation.

I was fascinated to learn about the highland people who live in the forests at altitudes between 200 and 800 metres, where there is great medicinal flora diversity.

As recently as June, an article in Defense News, a trade publication, reported that the Air Force was developing «a stealthy 4,000 - mph plane capable of flying to altitudes of about 100,000 feet, with transcontinental range.»

ADS — B — first conceived in the early 1990s by the FAA and a variety of government agencies and businesses that build and / or rely heavily on airplanes, including NASA and delivery giant United Parcel Service (UPS)-- relies on the proactive communication between global positioning system (GPS) satellites and transponders placed on board aircraft to inform pilots, other aircraft and air traffic controllers about an aircraft's location, identity, speed and altitude.

Since aurora extend between about 90 and 400 km in altitude, a much larger separation distance is needed to see them in 3D.

Solar storms can cause dramatic change in the temperatures of the upper atmosphere, including the ionosphere, which ranges from about 30 miles in altitude to about 600 miles high — the edge of space.

At about the time the Lamb shift was reported, a group in England discovered the decay of the pion to the muon in photographic plates exposed to cosmic rays at high altitude.

Sky watchers have catalogued more than 16,000 objects larger than about 10 centimeters, most of them in low Earth orbit, at altitudes of 200 to 2,000 kilometers.

David Keith of the University of Calgary, Canada, has submitted a paper to Nature in which he outlines a proposal to release about a tonne of sulphate particles from a NASA plane at an altitude of 20 kilometres.

While aircraft produce only about 3 per cent of the NOx in the troposphere, NOx at this altitude stays around longer than at ground level — several days rather than a few minutes or hours.

The lower edge of the stratosphere, bounded by the tropopause, varies in altitude from about 18 kilometres at the equator to between 6 and 8 kilometres over the poles.

The uncertainty about how much flying time takes place in the stratosphere arises partly because the altitude of the tropopause varies greatly with latitude, season and the weather in the troposphere.

In one species, the black snub - nosed monkey (about 2,000 individuals are found in the wild), they identified several hypoxia - related genes that allowed them to thrive in the highest altitudes (a narrow region 3,400 - 4,500 meters above sea level in a narrow region between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers within the Tibetan plateau) than any other nonhuman primatIn one species, the black snub - nosed monkey (about 2,000 individuals are found in the wild), they identified several hypoxia - related genes that allowed them to thrive in the highest altitudes (a narrow region 3,400 - 4,500 meters above sea level in a narrow region between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers within the Tibetan plateau) than any other nonhuman primatin the wild), they identified several hypoxia - related genes that allowed them to thrive in the highest altitudes (a narrow region 3,400 - 4,500 meters above sea level in a narrow region between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers within the Tibetan plateau) than any other nonhuman primatin the highest altitudes (a narrow region 3,400 - 4,500 meters above sea level in a narrow region between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers within the Tibetan plateau) than any other nonhuman primatin a narrow region between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers within the Tibetan plateau) than any other nonhuman primate.

Our results demonstrate that despite cold temperatures and low - oxygen conditions, hunter - gatherers colonized extreme high - altitude Andean environments in the Terminal Pleistocene, within about 2 ky of the initial entry of humans to South America.»

The orbiter's final operational altitude is about 250 miles (400 km) above Mars in a sun - synchronous polar orbit.

The Pucuncho Basin in the southern Peruvian Andes contains the highest - altitude Pleistocene archaeological sites yet identified in the world, about 900 meters above confidently dated contemporary sites.

The technology used in the WASP system can bring about a dramatic change in the way high - altitude science missions are conducted.

«During the deep - dip campaigns, we lower the lowest altitude in the orbit, known as periapsis, to about 125 km, which allows us to take measurements throughout the entire upper atmosphere.»

These long asked questions of the universe still remain a mystery, but they are about to be solved by the world's most advanced telescope ALMA, a giant telescope that was constructed at an altitude of 5,000 meters in Chile and started its scientific observations from 2011.

Since the first microwave sounding unit was launched into orbit in November 1978, satellite - based instruments have measured the temperature of the atmosphere from the surface up to an altitude of about eight kilometers above sea level.

When I came back from my first stint at altitude I had lost about five kilos and was in the best shape I'd ever been in.

In general, the UVB rays are only strongest from about 10 am to 3 pm to trigger Vitamin D production in your body (depending on time of year, latitude, and altitudeIn general, the UVB rays are only strongest from about 10 am to 3 pm to trigger Vitamin D production in your body (depending on time of year, latitude, and altitudein your body (depending on time of year, latitude, and altitude).

About — Maca is a root that grows in the high Andes of Peru, at altitudes of approximately 4,100 — 4,500 metres.

I read with interest the comments about altitude...... I'm in Sydney and facing different problems — 100F and 90 % humidity!

I live at 5000 feet, in case anyone wonders about altitude issues.