Sentences with phrase «journey millions of miles»

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope microshutters have taken a short jaunt in preparation of its million mile journey in four years.

A journey of millions of miles must begin with tests.

The researchers say that the additional neutrinos are not in fact missing, but rather transformed during their 93 - million - mile journey to Earth into two other types of neutrinosmuon - neutrinos and tau - neutrinos.

Poor old Pluto will be 3 billion 11 million miles from us, and the spacecraft, New Horizons, will soon be approaching it after a 15 - year journey to get there, with an ETA of July 2015.

The journey of a million miles begins with a single step.

Inge is determined and yet fragile, placid and yet spinning a million miles an hour beneath the surface, and her journey — both around Germany and her past — could only be carried off by a performance of immense skill.

In total, participants travelled more than three million miles — the equivalent to more than 123 trips around the world — as well as saving two million car journeys and more than 847 tonnes of C02.

The journey of a million miles starts with that first step.

They wanted ARC to be part of a documentary they were creating and our emergency shelter would be their first stop on a five - thousand - mile journey around the U.S. as they would interview animal protection leaders, veterinarians, animal advocates, and other experts to learn what they are doing to reduce, and ultimately end the needless killing of 3 - 4 million homeless dogs and cats each year.

Our cross country network covers 13 million miles every year and we want to ensure every route offers the best combination of destinations, price and journey time for customers.»

He was a source of mine on the two - way relationship between climate and people from the early 1980s until three weeks ago, when he died of a pulmonary embolism on a flight from Stockholm to London — part of his 3 million miles of relentless (and ultimately fatal) journeying to study or communicate the science of climate change and its significance for society.

Their annual migration is one of the most awe - inspiring on Earth: Each fall, millions of these striking black - and - orange butterflies take flight on a 3,000 - mile journey across the U.S. and Canada to wintering grounds in Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains.

It is good enough that we can successfully land a fridge on a comet after a journey of 500 million miles lasting 4000 days.

Their biggest project, to date, has been the 10,000 miles (16,000 km) of the National Cycle Network that is said to run within 2 miles (3.2 km) of 75 % of the British population and get used for 230 million journeys each year.