Sentences with phrase «kilometers further»

From whale bones, 42 Arctic driftwood, 26 and patterns of Arctic shoreline erosion, 25 we also know that during the Holocene, Arctic summer sea ice retreated 1000 kilometers further north than seen today.

After an hour or so exploring proceed a few kilometers further on to the turnoff to the Cape Otway Lightstation.

In the hamlet of Molino Vitelli, a few kilometers further along the valley, you can buy wine direct from the local vineyard.

To reach the potentially habitable planet Proxima b, these «photogravitational» assists counterintuitively require first sending the light sail swooping blisteringly close to the bright, sunlike stars Alpha Centauri A and B — even though they are nearly two trillion kilometers farther from us than Proxima b's smaller, dimmer host star, Proxima Centauri.

Enormous icebergs splintered, uncontrolled, off Sjögren's front edge; that edge now sits 15 kilometers farther back into the fjord than it used to.

The Ellesmere Island site is about 1200 kilometers farther north than any previous camel find, Rybczynski says.

The researchers found that the underground portion of the Hayward Fault meets the Calaveras Fault 10 kilometers farther north than where the creeping surface traces of both faults meet.

«This is an example of how the human activity far from the poles can affect the life at thousands of kilometers far from our homes,» Barbosa told LiveScience.

Unsuccessful females maintained a cautious distance of nearly half a kilometer farther away from humans, but in doing so, gave their cubs greater exposure to potentially infanticidal male bears.

The island is about 25 kilometers far away from Sihanoukville.

It has a Nelson Mandela Museum and thirty kilometers farther lies Qunu, birth - and burial place of the former head of state.

They've done a nice job of creating a bright, cheaper alternative to the very popular Pajamas hostel a kilometer further south..

Not exact matches

Successive explosions from the building storing the fireworks sent huge chunks of concrete flying as far as a kilometer (a half mile), according to resident Jayashree Harikrishnan.

South Korea's responding missile tests included one with a 1,000 - kilometer (620 - mile) range, to mimic striking the North Korea launch site, which is not far from the & North Korean capital.

About the tenth century, when the ancient Scandinavians, the Vikings, were frequenting North America, the humid portion of the east, as far as the mid-east of what is now the United States of North America, was covered by a dense forest of 1.6 million square kilometers.

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.

Micius teleported photons» quantum properties 1,400 kilometers from the ground to space — farther than ever before, scientists reported September 7 in Nature.

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

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

Satellite data gathered from 2003 through 2013 reveal booming populations of phytoplankton as far as hundreds of kilometers from the bergs, researchers report online today in Nature Geoscience.

The storm surge drove seawater as far as 15 kilometers inland.

The inmates, who could be as far as 168 miles (270 kilometers) away, saw their doctors via a monitor set up at the prison.

At its closest, G2 will pass about 25 billion kilometers from the event horizon, far enough that it is unlikely to get entirely sucked in.

But large slides (such as the 30 - million - cubic - meter flow that occurred in Mesa County, Colorado, and ran more than 4.5 kilometers in 2014, shown) can sometimes travel more than 20 times farther than they fall — and sometimes even, like a fluid, slosh up and over hills.

In June, Chinese researchers demonstrated that the satellite Micius could send entangled quantum particles to far - flung locations on Earth, their properties remaining intertwined despite being separated by more than 1,200 kilometers...

The compound has turned up far from Palo Verde, in blood and yolk from a croc population more than 100 kilometers away in the Tárcoles River, part of a different river system.

Animals at the Alarcón Rise are similar to locations further south (almost 300 kilometers) on the East Pacific Rise.

In fact, concentrations were 17 times higher in those drinking water wells within one kilometer of an active natural gas well than those farther away.

Last month, the QUESS team reported that it had used the satellite to beam a pair of entangled photons to two ground stations spaced 1,200 kilometers apart2 — far exceeding an earlier record of 144 kilometers (ref.

Those estimates — for the Moscoviense and Orientale basins on the Moon's far side — yielded impactor sizes of 100 and 110 kilometers across respectively, larger than some previous estimates.

So far not precluding a starshade closely resembles a concerted effort to build one: when NASA first announced the formal start of WFIRST, it also confirmed that the telescope would be launched into an orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, where conditions are tranquil enough for a starshade to function.

GPS tracking devices on 17 birds showed that the landfill life might mean up to 100 - kilometer round - trips to feed — healthy distances, but far shorter than their historic migration routes.

Quantum information has leapt through the air about 100 kilometers or more in two new experiments, farther and with greater fidelity than ever before.

The disappearance of heavy glaciers is allowing the earth's crust below to rebound — «remarkably fast,» Domack says, and far greater than the 0.8 centimeter estimated from a GPS station 150 kilometers away.

As far as archaeologists can tell, people here were loosely connected culturally to Scandinavia and lived with their extended families on individual farmsteads, with a population density of fewer than five people per square kilometer.

Evidence suggests that the mantle behaves differently below 1 megameter (1,000 kilometers, or 621 miles) in depth, but so far seismologists have not been able to explain why this boundary exists.

At a distance of 415 million miles (668 million kilometers) from Earth, Jupiter offered spectacular views of its colorful, roiling atmosphere, the legendary Great Red Spot, and it smaller companion at farther southern latitudes dubbed «Red Spot Jr..»

Whereas Pluto's putative ocean could in principle support life, it is probably locked beneath perhaps 200 kilometers of ice and very far from Earth, making it a much less appealing target for astrobiological studies than other, closer subsurface oceans known to exist in the solar system, such as those within the icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

Further certainty about the source of that particular FRB, if it ever comes at all, is likely to only emerge through more detailed follow - up studies using other facilities, such as the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico or the yet - to - be-built Square Kilometer Array in Australia and South Africa.

For the most part, today's subducting slabs can only sink so far, to about 670 kilometers below the surface, before the mantle's makeup turns from a honey - like consistency, to that of paste — too dense for most slabs to penetrate further.

Of all the spots investigated, the strangest by far was found in a 90 - kilometer - wide, four - kilometer - deep crater called Occator.

Farther inside the pack there are kilometers - wide chunks that have been blown together into a nearly solid mass.

We know how far a person standing on the surface is from the planets center (about 6,371 kilometers), so all we need to know is his mass, and then we can calculate Earth's mass.

«Depending on the equipment used, this method could scale to detect radioactivity at distances of at least tens of kilometers and possibly as far as 100 km,» says Professor Choi.

Semenov experienced a raging conflagration some 65 kilometers (40 miles) from ground zero, but the effects of the blast rippled out far into northern Europe and Central Asia as well.

The rupture extended about 180 kilometers, by far the longest rupture for any deep earthquake recorded, Lay said.

The ship will collect data near and far from shore in Terrebonne Bay, about 125 kilometers west of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi Delta, and Atchafalaya Bay, another 150 kilometers west.

Dispersal and movement First and foremost, according to scientists, hurricane - force winds in excess of 119 kilometers per hour further mix and disperse the oil itself.

Allowing human water use, largely for agriculture, to expand from 2,600 cubic kilometers today to 4,000 cubic kilometers in the future will allow further degradation at such environmental disaster sites as the drying Aral Sea in Asia and seven major rivers, including the Colorado in the U.S., that no longer reach the sea, notes David Molden, deputy director general for research at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka.

Gas giants are probably born further out, beyond some 400 million kilometers, where ice crystals can develop and accumulate into planetary cores that are massive enough to attract large amounts of gas from the disk.