Sentences with phrase «kilometers of»

As soon as you download the app, it will plot you anywhere in the world, and from there it will show you singles within 100 feet to 100 miles or 100 kilometers of you.

Other than the fact they've melded to my feet, both pairs are pretty much like new after many many days and kilometers of wear.

Beyond the 10 to 12 kilometers of the actual obstacle course, they often require a decent training component in preperation for the event.

We provide an example of successful restoration linking effective management of nutrients to the successful recovery of submersed aquatic vegetation along thousands of kilometers of coastline in Chesapeake Bay, United States.

«The surface of Mars is so cold — on average -70 ° to -100 °C -LSB--94 °F to -148 °F]-- that any water within 2 or 3 kilometers of the surface, never mind a meter or two, should be permanently frozen, they noted.»

Scientists originally thought the Alaska region lost 50 gigatons of mass, or 50 cubic kilometers of water, a year.

After 2 years and nearly 9 kilometers of driving, NASA's Mars Curiosity has arrived at the base of Mount Sharp to begin a whole new phase of exploration.

From 1990 to 2008, 1.3 million square kilometers of forest was cleared to make way for agriculture, the report shows.

Two eminent tropical marine scientists today urged Australians to get behind a plan by the Federal Government to transform nearly a million square kilometers of the Coral Sea into...

While most of this deforestation occurred in South America, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and the majority of agricultural products causing deforestation were consumed in the countries of origin, goods consumed in the EU contributed to approximately 90,000 square kilometers of lost forestland — about 7 % of the global deforestation resulting from agricultural expansion during this period, and up to 10 % if all finally processed products and all consumption sectors — such as textiles, pharmaceuticals, and service sectors — are added on.

The studies have shown some snow leopards cover up to 30 or 40 kilometers of their habitat daily searching for prey.

If the craft were to crash on the surface of a cold moon like Enceladus, the RTGs could easily thaw a path through tens of kilometers of ice, and plop down into the liquid water ocean beneath, though this might take a long time.

That's right, 5 stations, all from the South East continental US, all within several hundred kilometers of each other.

So it is difficult, says Grzymski, to imagine how these organisms might survive in the dark, under kilometers of ice.

Supervolcano isn't a true scientific term, Benson explained, but generally refers to a volcanic eruption that produces at least 1,000 cubic kilometers of material.

The spacecraft made three close approaches to Mercury, the closest of which took it to within 327 kilometers of the surface.

The beam travels through 295 kilometers of rock to the Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) detector, a gigantic pit buried 1...

For comparison, the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 produced only 4.2 cubic kilometers of material.

The following is from a USGS site --(Typhoon Yunya passed within 75 kilometers of Mount Pinatubo at approximately 1100 on June 15.

Studying ice cores has provided a way to examine the biology of icy environments buried beneath kilometers of ice for millions of years.

Huge, drifting ice rafts (the white spot on the satellite image below) shed minerals as they melt, painting trails of nutrients, teeming phytoplankton, and chlorophyll across hundreds of kilometers of ocean.

«Less than 12 percent of the earthquakes we have occur within two kilometers of a mapped, optimally oriented fault,» said Boak.

There's 5,400 cubic kilometers of water into the lake, [and] it would just keep blasting out until it degassed.»

Traveling to all the villages within 10 kilometers of Serengeti National Park, Mzimbiri and his team notch up 45,000 dogs a year.

«There is so much pollution going into the air from this place that there is no living piece of grass or shrub within 30 kilometers of the city,» Fuller says.

«By eliminating the 55 kilometers of human - made levees on the west bank of the river from Pointe a la Hache and Venice, the surges propagating in the river from Pointe a la Hache past New Orleans will be lowered by up to two meters,» Westerink said.

The probe passed within 2,200 kilometers of Comet Borrelly's frozen nucleus and through the comet's coma of dust and gas.

Flying within 2,068 kilometers of Phoebe, the spacecraft found a «world of dramatic landforms, with craters everywhere, landslides, and linear structures such as grooves, ridges, and chains of pits,» says Cassini scientist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Another of the formations would have created around 20 cubic kilometers of water.

After all, the roughly 1,200 square kilometers of land on which New York sits is now valued at around $ 600 billion, much more than the total cost of building the Big Apple.

Its latest target: 10,000 square kilometers of the equatorial Pacific, 600 kilometers west of the Galápagos — by far the most ambitious and controversial iron - seeding plan yet.

But the best habitat — about 7 square kilometers of low - land forest — is not protected, and villagers sometimes kill orangutans that raid gardens.

We're projected to see 25 million kilometers of new paved roads on the planet by the middle of the century, which is enough to go around the world more than 600 times.»

In August 2009, the orbiting Cassini spacecraft caught sight of 20 - meter - high corrugations rippling across 1500 kilometers of Saturn's inner C ring (regular, narrow bright bands, above), which is only about 10 meters thick.

Juno will instead focus on the planet itself, systematically surveying it across up to 37 orbits that take it within 5,000 kilometers of the cloud tops.

And if sending a probe across the trillions of kilometers of space to visit a nearby star system ever becomes feasible, engineers have their first target.

For most of May Chris Darimont, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, poured liters of fermented cattle blood mixed with pureed rotten fish guts on 3,000 square kilometers of British Columbia's coastal wilderness.

She found that two of the deposits would have created lakes containing around 40 cubic kilometers of water each.

The Daya Bay experiment comprises six detectors in three clusters, all within 1.9 kilometers of six working nuclear reactors.

But anyone can view the 100,000 photographs and 1,000 hours of video that covers around 3,200 kilometers of U.S. coastline via the Coastal and Marine Geology Video and Photograph Portal.

It was only 3000 years ago that humans first set foot on Fiji and other isolated islands of the Pacific, having sailed across thousands of kilometers of ocean.

That changed during a moment of «dumb luck» on November 25 as Galileo passed within 300 kilometers of Io, says Galileo team member Laszlo Keszthelyi of the University of Arizona, Tucson.

For anything to arrive on Mussau (from New Guinea or New Britain) it would need to cross 250 - 350 kilometers of open sea, and this doesn't happen frequently.

After the spill BP responded with thousands of cleanup people, thousands of boats and thousands of kilometers of oil - containment booms.

In May six nations in Southeast Asia, with technical support from the Nature Conservancy, WWF and Conservation International, committed to the Coral Triangle Initiative, which will protect 75,000 square kilometers of coastline, coral reefs and ocean.

Each OCO - 2 reading will sample a column of the atmosphere above roughly 3 square kilometers of Earth's surface — much smaller than the 85 - square - kilometer footprint of a similar Japanese probe, the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), which launched in 2009 and is still operating.

Nestled in a rocky pocket under 4 kilometers of glacial ice, Lake Vostok's waters have never been sampled.

For instance, Ekström says, in several cases major landslides have fallen upon glaciers and then scooted nearly friction - free across several kilometers of ice — which tends to muffle seismic vibrations until the speeding material slams into the opposite side of the valley.

If that's the reason, it could be because the crust is about 25 kilometers thick, resembling continental crust, compared with the 5 to 10 kilometers of oceanic crust elsewhere.

Using a helicopter for just 20 hours of flight time in April 2012, a consortium put together by Evans imaged 370 square kilometers of terrain, encompassing Angkor and two nearby temple complexes, Phnom Kulen and Koh Ker.