Sentences with phrase «kilometers altitude»

Third row: Wind shear, defined as the magnitude of the vector difference in wind between the surface and 6 kilometers altitude.

(1) In addition to the data of the near - surface temperatures, which are composed of measurements from weather stations and sea surface temperatures, there is also the microwave data from satellites, which can be used to estimate air temperatures in the troposphere in a few kilometers altitude.

The Monsoon also acts like an enormous elevator, pumping vast amounts of air and pollutants from the surface up to levels above 16 kilometers altitude.

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.

A picture taken by a camera on the underbelly of the lander at a 3 - kilometer altitude showed it to be nearly in the middle of a 1 - kilometer - wide landing ellipse.

When the lander jettisons its heat shield at a 1 - kilometer altitude, data transmission switches from an antenna on the shield to one on the lander.

Not exact matches

Several months after that meeting, Peter Diamandis, a space - travel fanatic in St. Louis, announced a new competition, the X-Prize (later named the Ansari X-Prize), for the first manned, non-government-funded flight to reach an altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, and then repeat the feat with the same vehicle within two weeks.

The spacecraft reached an altitude of 100 kilometers at its apex — the height where our sky officially «turns into» outer space, known as the Kármán line.

The burn - free, capture altitude is also quite high — some 20,000 kilometers above Mars, far beyond where science satellites set up shop to scrutinize the planet up close.

From an altitude of 30 kilometers, «you can really see the curvature of Earth and the blackness of space,» says Des Jardins.

The spacecraft made its 127th and final close approach to Titan on April 21 at 11:08 p.m. PDT (2:08 a.m. EDT on April 22), passing at an altitude of about 608 miles (979 kilometers) above the moon's surface.

Westlake et al. analyzed data from 41 flybys of Titan, some at altitudes of less than 1000 kilometers (621 miles) when Cassini dipped into the upper fringes of its atmosphere.

Rising to an altitude of more than 240 kilometers, the rocket flight offered 6 minutes of free fall.

The flyby will be at an altitude of 3,106 miles (4,999 kilometers).

In a short but historic flight, one of the company's Boeing 747 - 400s flew more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from London Heathrow Airport to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, reaching a peak altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) during the 40 - minute flight, with one of its four engines burning a blend of 20 percent coconut and babassu oils mixed with regular petroleum - based jet fuel.

The Mediterranean Intensive Oxidant Study, performed in the summer of 2001, uncovered air pollution layers from the surface to an altitude of 15 kilometers.

The 17 - meter - tall Electron is designed to launch 150 kilograms to an altitude of 500 kilometers, enough capacity to pack in dozens of CubeSats.

ORACLES will also deploy a camera - carrying ER - 2 — a variant of the venerable U-2 spy plane — that will cruise at an altitude of 20 kilometers, providing contextual images.

Four years ago, as GRAIL's two spacecraft neared the end of a 1 - year orbital mission with a planned crash into the lunar surface, they measured Orientale from a scant altitude of 2 kilometers.

During one massive dust storm in 2006 and 2007, signs of water vapor were found at unusually high altitudes in the atmosphere, nearly 80 kilometers up.

The day before launch, the U.S. had set off a nuclear explosion at an altitude of 400 kilometers just southwest of Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean.

At altitudes above 50 kilometers, ultraviolet light from the sun easily penetrates the Red Planet's thin atmosphere and breaks down water's chemical bonds between hydrogen and oxygen.

The experiment is the first major test of a piping system that could one day spew sulfate particles into the stratosphere at an altitude of 20 kilometers, supported by a stadium - size hydrogen balloon.

Previous research had suggested that some blue jets could link clouds to the ionosphere, but they reached altitudes of only 40 kilometers.

During a thunderstorm over the South China Sea last summer Han - Tzong Su of the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan and his colleagues recorded five separate gigantic jets that attained altitudes of 90 kilometers.

It wasn't precisely confirmed until 1976, when a Scout D rocket carried a hydrogen - maser clock to an altitude of 10,000 kilometers, or about 6,000 miles.

The above 2 - shot mosaic of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko was taken by ESA's Rosetta orbiter at an effective altitude of just 19.9 kilometers.

Looking further to the future, we could create a free - flyer mission and put it into a polar orbit at an altitude near 800 kilometers, where the greatest concentration of debris is found.»

Samra will have another infrared spectrometer at an altitude of 15 kilometers.

In fact, they could still manage to get up the 3.2 - kilometer hill — something that had been a problem for many of them at the start of their first visit, says Angelo D'Alessandro, a biochemist also at the Altitude Research Center.

Still, at altitudes above roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) lunar tides have been detected in winds, temperature, airglow emissions and a number of ionospheric parameters.

Observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide made by aircraft at altitudes between 3 and 6 kilometers (10,000 - 20,000 feet) show that seasonal carbon dioxide variations have substantially changed during the last 50 years.

Equations worked out decades ago by Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov and, independently, by American space scientist Jerome Pearson, found that the ideal tether should be tapered, widest at the geosynchronous orbit altitude of 35,800 kilometers, and narrowest at Earth's surface and at its far end.

The sun is a tempestuous place prone to proton and electron particle storms that can speed across a 150 - million - kilometer space chasm to bash into Earth's atmosphere, potentially disrupting satellite service, damaging telecommunications networks, causing power grid blackouts and endangering high - altitude aircraft as well as astronauts on board the International Space Station.

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.

At its current orbital altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers), Dawn takes 11 days to capture and return images of Ceres» whole surface.

Whereas the lower atmosphere (at altitudes of less than 200 kilometers) is consistent with ground - based stellar occultations, the upper atmosphere is much colder and more compact than indicated by pre-encounter models.

Molecular nitrogen (N2) dominates the atmosphere (at altitudes of less than 1800 kilometers or so), whereas methane (CH4), acetylene (C2H2), ethylene (C2H4), and ethane (C2H6) are abundant minor species and likely feed the production of an extensive haze that encompasses Pluto.

We show that high - altitude southern Greenland, currently lying below more than 2 kilometers of ice, was inhabited by a diverse array of conifer trees and insects within the past million years.

«Even the strongest thunderstorms only reach altitudes of 20 kilometers.»

For example, in 1991 the volcano Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, which spans altitudes from 10 to 50 kilometers.

Once slowed to 1700 kilometers per hour, at an altitude of 11 kilometers, Schiaparelli will deploy a parachute to bring its speed down to 250 kilometers per hour.

Scientists at McMurdo Station detected unusual atmospheric waves with an altitude between 30 to 115 kilometers (20 to 70 miles) above Antarctica in 2011.

In November, the spacecraft will swoop low over the surface at an altitude of just several kilometers and drop the Philae lander, which will sample the comet — if the lander's two harpoons can keep it stuck to the surface.

On 12 November, the Rosetta comet orbiter dropped Philae from an altitude of 22.5 kilometers.

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

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.

Whereas Hubble circles Earth at an altitude of less than 600 kilometers, JWST will set up shop 1.5 million kilometers away, well beyond the orbit of the moon.

As a result, scientists typically ignore satellite data for altitudes lower than 15 kilometers, Ridley says.

* Correction, 2 March, 5:25 p.m.: This article has been corrected to reflect that P. flavescens dragonflies can travel at altitudes of more than 1000 meters, rather than 1000 kilometers.