Sentences with word «kilometer»

Last year's record melting left 4.1 million square kilometers of ice still intact.

The trick to finding the iron beneath hundreds of kilometers of rock is its effects not only on the motions of an orbiting satellite but also on the motions of the planet itself.

Our projects will add something on the order of 50 tons of iron to seed an ocean surface area of approximately 10,000 square kilometers in diameter.

Sometimes the team released gas traveling a leisurely average walking speed of a few kilometers per hour; other times, they let the gas flow 100 times faster.

The question relates to a major collapse of the sheet sufficient to free many cubic kilometers of ice into the sea where it would melt more rapidly.

To get a better look at the molecular scale we need a «camera» that's several kilometers long, and one such facility is firing up this month.

The question is: how best to ship this gas thousands of kilometers north in the most efficient way possible.

But the hot spots on the other two neutron stars are much larger than expected — perhaps a few kilometers across.

The satellite - based instruments measure the temperature of the atmosphere from the surface up to an altitude of about eight kilometers above sea level.

A cubic light year is a cube that is 10 trillion kilometers on each side.

For example, if you have been doing hard physical labor all day, you are unlikely to come home and run ten kilometers for fun.

Along fast - flowing outlet glaciers, ice speeds can reach hundreds of meters or even several kilometers per year.

This was the second lowest extent behind 2007 and 2.4 million square kilometers below the 1979 to 2000 average.

These in turn combine into larger chunks, and so on, until they form a comet nucleus a few kilometers wide.

The ocean is several tens of kilometers deep and surrounds a large rocky core.

Eight and a half kilometers of forest trail along the rugged coastline with the crashing surf and stunning views make this a must see.

If sea level rises more slowly and land sinks less, the structures would build up 1000 square kilometers off the present coast.

Currently, the first accessible part of the island has a surface area of about 5 square kilometers with nearly 25 quests / missions to play in order to reach the end of it.

If you're using the airline's award charts, just divide the cost in kilometers by 1.6 to get miles.

These regions, however, lie several hundred kilometers apart from each other and the generally high genetic difference between the populations does not suggest high rates of exchange.

We are building four major bridges [including pedestrian and vehicle bridges] and 12 kilometers [about 7.5 miles] of tunnels.

Even in the ocean's deepest trench, about 11 kilometers down, researchers have discovered abundant life.

In principle, the dual - comb technique could detect an even wider range of gases over many kilometers.

In a good mood we begin our last eight kilometers along the train tracks.

Despite its name, the program uses kilometers as its currency.

And I walk daily — 2.5 kilometers around the trails near my home.

So, here we are: 6 months and 6,000 kilometers further.

Day trips — Sometimes the greatest experience for your trip is located only a few kilometers outside of the town you're staying in... it would be a shame to miss it!

The quantum link remained intact over a separation of 1,200 kilometers between the two cities — about 10 times farther than ever before.

We've got the big picture maps that are three miles across by five miles [five by eight kilometers], which is huge.

With millions of kilometers run by hundreds of prototypes, with a two - year development procedure, what can we expect from the A about to come into the light.

But she's got good reason: She's busy doing experiments in areas ranging from low - gravity materials science work and human physiology, 350 kilometers up in space.

The island lies about 15 kilometers offshore and our trip takes about 50 minutes.

The bottoms of these plates can be hundreds of kilometers underground, making them much too thick to drill through.

Additionally, most of the newer model vehicles we provide have low kilometers, which mean that the manufacturer's warranty is still valid.

It's based on the number of steps taken and miles or kilometers traveled.

They are labeled «deep» if they occur at 300 - 700 kilometers depth.

The tech giant proudly shared that part of this lineup are battery cells that can power electric vehicles as far as 600 kilometers after charging for just 20 minutes.

Our estimate is based on the same improvement from 2008 to 2009 as occurred going from 2007 to 2008 plus 200,000 square kilometers based on gut feeling.

The area of enhanced ozone between 20 and 30 degrees S latitude and 3 to 10 kilometers altitude is believed to be related to African lightning.

Generally this will stretch, at most, a few kilometers out.

Low - oxygen zones where large ocean species can not live have increased by close to 5.2 million square kilometers since the 1960s, the team found.

Once in the atmosphere, the metal can travel for months and thousands of kilometers until rain deposits it into oceans.