Sentences with phrase «kilometers above»

Under the «Project Loon», the internet giant would use balloons floating at a height of 20 kilometers above earth surface for transmission of internet services.

The device will gauge the temperature of clouds almost 100 kilometers above the Earth.

Dave Springer says: May 10, 2011 at 8:55 am CO2 extinction altitude can be seen in the spectrum looking down from 20 kilometers above the arctic ocean.

To prove that the technique was sensitive enough to be used from space, the researchers used data from a GNSS Receiver Remote Sensing Instrument mounted onto a satellite 635 kilometers above the ocean.

Now are you claiming you can take a molecule with a certain kinetic energy (which is what temperature is a measurement of), and raise it 17 kilometers above the Earth (increasing its potential energy by 4664 Joules if we're talking about a mole of N2) without inputting more energy, and have it maintain that same kinetic energy, that same temperature?

Measurements for sea ice area from Cryosphere Today were 2,968,000 square kilometers or just 63,000 square kilometers above the all time record low.

At an altitude of about 125 kilometers above the surface, measurements by the Venus Express probe have shown, the temperature drops to an amazingly low -175 °C, cool enough in theory for carbon dioxide ice or snow to form.»

Doug and his colleagues packed an aircraft with a large number of complementary instruments provided by multiple principal investigators to characterize the composition of the atmosphere over the remote Pacific, between 0.5 and 6 kilometers above Earth's surface at latitudes between 70 ° N and 58 ° S.

To be sure, increased thermodynamic instability, increased moisture content in the atmosphere (2 factors that Kevin called out), and increased vertical wind shear within 5 kilometers above the ground create an environment more favorable for a tornado outbreak.

The open beta will feature a new map called Ixion, set 60,000 kilometers above the Saturnian moon Titan, which «forces players to maneuver around the colossal orbital ring that dominates its center.»

You will see many amazing sights including the Cusco Cathedral (built on top of the ruins of the Inca Palace), the old town with its magnificent renovated colonial buildings and the Sacsayhuaman, an Inca ruin, located approximately 3 kilometers above Cusco.

Birkeland was convinced that the aurora were created by charged particles streaming from the sun, drawn towards the poles of the earth by the magnetic field surrounding the planet and creating the lights as they collided with atoms in the earth's atmosphere, about 100 kilometers above the surface of the planet.

The pagoda is situated upon a narrow ridge, a few kilometers above the Phewa Tal.

The subsequent Mariner 2 mission enjoyed greater success, and after a 109 - day transfer orbit on December 14, 1962 it became the world's first successful interplanetary mission, passing 34,833 kilometers above the surface of Venus.

Juno will get close to the planet — just 5,000 kilometers above the cloud tops.

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.

The closest passes would be just 25 kilometers above the surface.

But the spectrometer scrutinizes pristine cosmic rays — some of which have traveled undisturbed over millions of light - years — from its perch some 400 kilometers above Earth.

The belt, which extends from a few hundred to about 2000 kilometers above Earth, «constitutes the most abundant source of antiprotons in Earth's vicinity,» Bruno says.

The antiprotons tend to congregate several hundred kilometers above Earth, where ordinary matter is so scarce that they are unlikely to meet up with their particle counterparts — protons — and destroy each other on contact.

Most of the antiprotons come from antineutrons, which are generated when energetic cosmic rays strike the upper atmosphere tens of kilometers above Earth's surface, Bruno notes.

And while the clouds aren't exactly teeming with life, air - sampling instruments have trapped bacteria more than 11 kilometers above sea level.

In addition, the larger than expected loss of UV light meant less stratospheric ozone up to 45 kilometers above the surface, but more above that line.

The belt, which consists of antiprotons trapped by Earth's magnetic field several hundred kilometers above the planet's surface, may ultimately become a key source of fuel for missions venturing beyond the solar system.

During its capture into orbit Juno passed just 4,490 kilometers above the Jovian cloud tops, so close that the planet filled half its sky.

Sieving through the data from CALIPSO — a satellite jointly launched by France and the U.S. — they found a thick layer of aerosols between 13 and 18 kilometers above sea level over a large area stretching across the eastern Mediterranean Sea, northern India and western China.

Earth's ionosphere, where incoming cosmic and solar rays interact with the atmosphere to create charged particles, extends from about 75 to about 1,200 kilometers above the planet's surface.

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

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA), a massive observatory now under construction five kilometers above sea level in Chile, should further illuminate the workings of distant galaxies when it opens for scientific use in 2011.

From its orbital perch hundreds of kilometers above Earth's surface, Fermi has charted the location of gamma - ray sources with its Large Area Telescope (LAT).

When the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, scientists weren't expecting to see haze reaching at least 200 kilometers above the dwarf planet's surface; nor were they expecting to see the haze divided into about 20 delicate and distinct layers -LRB-

Fifty kilometers above the moon, LOLA can pinpoint the elevation of lunar landforms to within 10 centimeters.

OSIRIS - REx flew within about 17,000 kilometers above Antarctica, using Earth's gravity to slingshot itself toward the asteroid.

Over several months, the spacecraft will slowly circularize its orbit, dipping in and out of the atmosphere, and using that friction to reach a circular orbit 400 kilometers above the surface.

To obtain the closest images yet of Io, Jupiter's turbulent moon, they directed Galileo to make a flyby just 608 kilometers above the surface — an area of intense radiation that might destroy the craft's sensitive electronics.

A photograph of another extremely active volcano, called Prometheus, captures a plume of vaporized sulfur dioxide towering 80 kilometers above an advancing lava flow.

With help from Hiroshi Tanimoto, PhD, and colleagues at the National Institute of Environmental Science in Tsukuba, Japan, the plane sampled at altitudes between two and three kilometers above Japan to avoid surface contaminants, and on days during the KD season when air currents originated only from northeastern China.

Iridium's satellites (pdf) operate in near - circular low Earth orbits (LEO) about 780 kilometers above the surface, traveling at about 27,000 kilometers per hour and circling the planet in about 100 minutes.

It will then use the moon's gravity to boost it into a particular 13.7 - day orbit never before used by a satellite, which swings between 400,000 and 100,000 kilometers above Earth.

The images were taken during July and August, when the Dawn spacecraft was approaching the asteroid and then orbiting about 2700 kilometers above Vesta's surface.

For the first time, a natural source of infrasonic waves of Earth has been measured directly from space — 450 kilometers above the planet's surface.

The ozone layer lies in Earth's stratosphere, 10 to 50 kilometers above sea level.

At 1,500 kilometers, the temperature starts to rise and by 10,000 kilometers above the photosphere the temperature reaches one million kelvins.

Clipper will periodically swoop down to as low as 25 to 100 kilometers above Europa's surface.

The volume of ash deposited, and the estimated height of the eruption plume (43 kilometers above sea level) put the eruption's magnitude at a minimum of 7 on the volcanic explosivity index (which has a scale of 1 to 8)-- making it one of the largest known in the Holocene.

More recent simulations by N. A. Artemieva and V. V. Shuvalov, both at the Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres in Moscow, have envisioned an asteroid of similar size vaporizing five to 10 kilometers above Tunguska.

Three boulders (shown) balance precariously on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in this Sept. 16 image taken 29 kilometers above the surface by the Rosetta spacecraft

Exactly 100 years ago a comet or an asteroid exploded a few kilometers above the Tunguska region of central Siberia, leaving a huge zone of destruction.

«If the moon broke apart at 1.2 Mars radii, about 680 kilometers above the surface, it would form a really narrow ring comparable in density to that of one of Saturn's most massive rings,» Mittal said.

Imaged by a high - performance optical instrument on KAYUGA called the multiband imager, this photo was taken approximately 100 kilometers above the moon's surface.