Sentences with phrase «kilometers down»

If it were, we could see the bottom of the ocean exactly as if we were looking down on it from an airplane, get you can not see the bottom of even a very clean, crystal pure lake more than a few tens of meters down, let alone the bottom of the ocean kilometers down.

Thermal vents, undersea volcanoes, the «millions of degrees» that Al Gore says exists 2 kilometers down?

«This was an opportunity for our artists to exhibit in the region,» said Mollie Dent - Brocklehurst, the director of Pace Gallery in London, which in February opened a branch in the privately owned Chesa Büsin in the village of Zuoz, about 20 kilometers down the valley from St. Moritz.

Access is easy; just 35 kilometers down the highway is the international airport and in 5 minutes you're at the fantastic 18 - hole course at Punta Blanca Golf Club, designed by Nick Price.The colonial style and exquisite decor are evident at the Gran Baha Prncipe Esmeralda hotel, which includes the exclusive luxury of Don Pablo Collection seal.

The famous Wat Plai Laem is just four kilometers down the road.

Is it really a coincidence that such natural rock formations happen here in Thailand and not a couple of hundred kilometers down south in Islamic Malaysia?

2) From Playa Dominical, travel 10 kilometers down the road towards San Isidro de Pérez Zeledón.

Getting to Nauyaca Waterfalls 1) From San Isidro de Pérez Zeledón, travel 26 kilometers down the road towards Playa Dominical.

To reach the dock where the boats depart we had to drive 30 kilometers down a very bumpy dirt road across the salt flats.

Only by luck he found himself on the beach in Conil de la Frontera, 40 kilometers down south from Cadiz.

The history of the Frankfurt Book Fair dates back to the 15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg first invented movable type — only a few kilometers down the road from Frankfurt.

But just 21 kilometers down a winding road is the town of Aitou, the village that my grandfather called home and the place he began his journey to America.

The ocean is warming, especially 1 - 2 kilometers down.

But despite widespread acceptance of the deep plume theory, geoscientists have failed to produce seismic imaging of just such a mushroom - shaped plume extending 3,000 kilometers down to the core - mantle boundary.

But this rupture began 70 kilometers down, within the Cocos plate itself, and rose up before stopping at about 40 kilometers» depth, likely at the plate interface.

Five kilometers down is the beginning of a large magma chamber lying partially within old oceanic crust that had been buried by more than 8 km of eruptive rock layers.

Lutz and Falkowski cite one study where unique chemical compounds isolated from an actinomycete strain inhabiting deep - sea sediments about 3.3 kilometers down in the South China Sea have shown potent activities against three cancerous tumor cell lines and also showed antibacterial activities.

Were the Earth a crystal ball, you might gaze 2,900 kilometers down to its outer core with a telescope.

In the case of Lop Nor, the source of the waves seemed to be located about six kilometers down — difficult to tunnel to, but not impossible.

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

Aside from its unprecedented size, the spill was the first to release a massive amount of oil 1.5 kilometers down on the sea floor and the first involving widespread use of oil dispersants below water.

Methane - generating bacteria might be living off hydrogen produced by rock, as studies kilometers down in South African gold mines have shown.

Data from the first pass of NASA's Juno spacecraft over the incessant storm show that its clouds stretch at least 350 kilometers down into the planet's atmosphere.

Its 500 - meter by 120 - meter array of 677 detectors in glass globes dangle like love beads from electrical cables 1.5 kilometers down into South Pole ice.

As slabs of Earth's crust decend into the mantle, they encounter a zone about 1,100 kilometers down where the mantle rock abruptly becomes stiffer, flowing less easily.

«So if I have this depression at the south pole, and I have beneath the surface 50 kilometers down a layer of water or an ocean, that layer of water at depth is a positive mass anomaly.

That's how deep - sea physiologist and ecologist Mackenzie Gerringer describes the pressure squeezing down on the deepest known living fish, some 8 kilometers down.

At Mponeng mine, a company is now drilling a tunnel to explore for gold five - and - a-half kilometers down.

Thirty kilometers down the road in Gelsenkirchen, Schalke's list of departed talents includes Julian Draxler, Mesut Özil, Leroy Sané and Manuel Neuer.

His body had sunk 1,000 meters and drifted 12 kilometers down the valley.

I hear people say that they heard of someone who thought they had lots of battery charge and then two kilometers down the road, the car has no power.»

Thorne's initial calculations showed that it was theoretically possible for Ellie to travel just one kilometer down the wormhole tunnel and emerge near Vega moments later — not even time for a bag of peanuts.

So they'll dive more than a kilometer down.»

«We think there are probably many, many more of these, ranging in sizes from a kilometer down to a few centimeters.»

It extends for almost 2 km along the Strait of Georgia and being one of the world's most extreme tidal areas, Saratoga Beach cansmoothly slope half a kilometer down to the waters edgeat low tide.

It extends for almost 2 km along the Strait of Georgia and being one of the world's most extreme tidal areas, Saratoga Beach can smoothly slope half a kilometer down to the waters edge at low tide.

It's located just a kilometer down the road from the previous stop of this Bali day trip but does involve a half hour hike downhill (and up again).

AK, Forgive my trouble in getting my mind around the words «no trouble», «low pressure» and «kilometer down», used in one paragraph.

Not exact matches

While some of the Ding clan built business empires here — manufacturing athletic shoes, for instance — Ding Zhize made a name for himself 600 kilometers (373 miles) down the coast in Macau's casinos.

Indeed, by analyzing a roster of competitive runners, Kilduff found that competitors running in a race with a rival whittled down their time by an average of five seconds per kilometers.

«Above 100 kilometers» — or 62 miles — «it's a lot, lot, lot thinner than down here, and you certainly wouldn't be able to survive,» Gossner said.

In an unfamiliar town and his battery down to about 60 kilometers of charge left, he used QQ to find a fellow Tesla owner nearby who let him charge his battery.

That's right — they are drilling down another 7,000 feet to reach an ore body at a depth of 3 miles — or more than 4.8 kilometers deep.

Instead, riders will tackle up - and - down terrain before settling into flat, sprint - stage mode for the final 60 - ish kilometers.

«Going down from 5 kilometers to 10 is much harder than going from zero to 5.»

The mine has a helical tunnel that goes a kilometer and a half down.

Recorded in extreme ultraviolet light, it covers a 230,000 - by - 77,000 kilometer area on the sun's surface and shows a one - million - degree solar plasma cooling down.

In 1994, the Tunisian government shut down the Center for Community Medicine, a clinic he founded, which provided medical care in the poor suburbs of Sousse, a city 100 kilometers south of Tunis.

He estimates that on the fifth planet, TRAPPIST - 1f, liquid water extends down about 200 kilometers — about 20 times deeper than the Mariana Trench on Earth.

The lab will be running an experiment where it bounces radio signals off the ionosphere and then back down to the sea, hundreds of kilometers over the horizon.