Two tragic deaths, months and thousands of
kilometers apart, recently collided in my consciousness as I pondered the topic of my latest contribution to this SLAW Justice Column.
«Salt plays a far more important role that we first thought,» says Rainer Zahn, a palaeoclimatologist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain.Zahn and his colleagues found that a build up of salty water off the coast of South Africa could jump start ocean circulation in the North Atlantic (this despite the two regions being thousands of
kilometers apart) while a reduction in the South African waters» saltiness could cause the opposite effect.
The company says Israel is a good fit for the pilot network because 90 % of Israeli car owners drive less than 70 kilometers per day, as well as the fact that urban areas are less than 150
kilometers apart.
Kuta Beach / Tanjung Aan, both are situated on southern coast of Lombok, just 5
kilometers apart.
Hamlets of no more than a few hundred inhabitants are over 40
kilometers apart.
there are only three such centers each hundreds of
kilometers apart.
McNamara says that LISA Pathfinder contains a vastly scaled - down version of eLISA, in which cubes have been positioned just centimeters apart, rather than hundreds of thousands of
kilometers apart.
Though these two groups were only 600 years and 800
kilometers apart, researchers were fascinated to find such a genetic difference.
Within the Cloud, these dormant comets are typically tens of millions of
kilometers apart.
Currently led by the European Space Agency, the project will launch three satellites, which will each settle into an orbit a million
kilometers apart from the other two.
The labs are about 10
kilometers apart, but the group meets regularly and members from the two labs work closely together, so the work isn't completely segregated.
They randomly chose homes about 2
kilometers apart for the presence of adult mosquitoes...
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.
In the current issue of Ecology, they found both species of oaks bearing bumper acorn crops in the same week or two during boom years, even when trees were more than 600
kilometers apart.
Sea level rise estimates likely to increase One source was NASA's twin GRACE satellites, which orbit the Earth about 200
kilometers apart from each other.
Flying 220
kilometers apart, the GRACE satellites constantly monitor their distance from each other with microwave pulses, down to microns.
Although the two groups aren't geographically separated during the mating season, the migratory division has led to a rapid genetic and physical divergence between them as though they were reproducing
kilometers apart, the researchers conclude.
But the apparent clustering of major seismic events that take place thousands of
kilometers apart is probably coincidental.
They randomly chose homes about 2
kilometers apart for the presence of adult mosquitoes and developing immature stages in water - filled containers.
In the coming months, they hope to encounter more reconnections with the spacecraft just 5
kilometers apart, to get a finer grained picture.
Three separate spacecraft, flying millions of
kilometers apart from each other at the vertices of a giant triangle, would precisely measure their mutual separations using sensitive lasers, and thus be capable of detecting low - frequency ripples in spacetime.
But they note that their calculations place the major slip area in the Lushan quake about 40 to 50
kilometers apart from the southwest end of the Wenchuan quake fault.
Some of the interspecies pairings lasted more than five years, with pairs spotted together at locations up to 650
kilometers apart.
«By being a rotorcraft, we're able to fly to multiple sites tens to hundreds of
kilometers apart to make these measurements in different geological settings.»
These sites lie about 30
kilometers apart in west - central Illinois.
In 2015, the most sophisticated of these tests, which involved measuring entangled electrons 1.3
kilometers apart, showed once again that spooky action is real.
Two mirrors 4
kilometers apart would have to be aligned precisely with the incoming laser.
Can they be loyal BVB - Fans, although they are over 9000
Kilometers apart?
With two off - the - shelf digital cameras situated about 1
kilometer apart facing Miami's Biscayne Bay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists David Romps and Rusen Oktem are collecting three - dimensional data on cloud behavior that have never been possible to collect before.
Not exact matches
Musk said the Hyperloop arrangement could be implemented between any pair of cities situated up to, say, 900 miles (1,500
kilometers)
apart.
American Samoa and the the independent nation of Samoa lie approximately 80
kilometers away from each other, but will celebrate the new year 23 hours
apart.
Arjan Robben tore Spain's defense
apart during 2014 world cup group game where Holland beat Spain by 5 - 1, he reached top speed of 37
kilometer per hour when he sprint pass Ramos and Jordi Alba to score his second and Holland's fifth of the day.
They also constrained the strength of Phobos based on results from simulations of the 10 -
kilometer diameter Stickney impact crater, which formed in the past when a rock rammed into Phobos without quite smashing the moon
apart.
«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.
The side of Pluto's largest moon viewed by NASA's passing New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015 is characterized by a system of «pull
apart» tectonic faults, which are expressed as ridges, scarps and valleys — the latter sometimes reaching more than 4 miles (6.5
kilometers) deep.
Additionally, fiber allows for dense spatial sampling, meaning data points are only meters
apart, whereas seismometers typically are separated by many
kilometers.
The new measurement indicates that distantly separated galaxies are spreading
apart at about 70
kilometers per second for each megaparsec between them.
The final management plan contains some innovative environmental conservation measures, like spacing the gas wells at least a half mile (0.8
kilometer)
apart and limiting production to just one percent of the plateau's environmentally sensitive surface at a time.
«This means if we look back to the universe when it was less than a quarter of its present age, we'd see that a pair of galaxies separated by a million light years would be drifting
apart at a velocity of 68
kilometers a second as the universe expands,» says Font - Ribera, a postdoctoral fellow in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division.
The orbit takes the stars far
apart for most of the time, but once per orbit they approach very close and the competing solar winds — traveling at 420
kilometers per second from the large star and up to 3000 km / s from the smaller — create a bow shock, heating the gas to tens of millions of degrees.
Galaxies are far
apart from each other, so even though galactic winds propagate at several hundred
kilometers per second, this process occurred over several billion years.
Coming 95 minutes
apart, the two slumps raced down the 970 - meter - tall northern wall of the open - pit mine at speeds topping 160
kilometers per hour, researchers report in the January issue of GSA Today, a publication of the Geological Society of America.
«In terms of distance, Pluto and Charon are orbiting 20,000
kilometers [12,000 miles]
apart and we need to hit our aim point within 1 percent of that.
The team found that in years when these magnetic isolines moved
apart, the turtle nests spread out over a larger area — by 1 or 2
kilometers.
CFCs are inert near the surface, but once they drift more than 10
kilometers high into the stratosphere, ultraviolet light splits them
apart to release atoms of chlorine.
The research shows that Gondwana crust was thrust atop North America when the two continents collided, sliding northward as much as 300
kilometers before the two continents separated and drifted
apart about 200 million years ago.
At altitudes of 60
kilometers and higher above the Martian surface, solar ultraviolet radiation splits methane molecules
apart.
The GRACE spacecraft, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and launched in 2002, are in the same orbit approximately 137 miles (220
kilometers)
apart.
The star spins around its axis at the speed of 600
kilometers per second at the equator, a rotational velocity so high that the star is nearly tearing
apart due to centrifugal forces.
It consists of two detectors situated 1,865 miles (3,002
kilometers)
apart in isolated regions in the states of Washington and Louisiana.