Sentences with phrase «kilometers out»

Generally this will stretch, at most, a few kilometers out.

The coral reef restoration will take place 6 kilometers out to sea to restore damaged Nusa Dua marine ecosystems.

They headed eight kilometers out to sea where a rickety wooden fishing boat was waiting with around 700 others whose dream was to make it to Italy's coast.

IBM - led research to create lithium - air electric vehicle batteries gets a boost from Japanese chemical companies toward the goal of 800 kilometers out of a full charge

The camera could also be aimed at a line of poles that the researchers planted 2.2 kilometers out toward the berg's edge.

In 2018, just next year folks, let's hope, NASA is going to be launching its James Webb Space Telescope, a giant piece of kit that's going to be about one and a half million kilometers out there beyond the orbit of the moon, and it's going to be able to look at these planets as they transit across the face of the star.

Although a kilometer out to sea the marathon swimmer was having difficulty breaking away from starting point Lombok Island.

This beach is one of the vastest expanses of beach sand in all BC, the beach stretching out nearly a kilometer out of the sea when the tide is low.

Only 1 kilometer out from the beach the diving spot Las Corridas offers excellent diving conditions.

Somewhere, perhaps as much as a kilometer out, she rolled onto her back and basked in the sun and the warm surface layer of the lake like some contented otter.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, «transportation in the U.S. costs the equivalent of less than one yuan ($) per kilometer, while road tolls [in China] are higher,» he added, pointing out that some mid - and small - sized Chinese enterprises have already started moving to Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and Cambodia for cheaper wages and materials.

«Oumuamua slingshotted around the sun on September 9 at a speed of 315,000 kilometers an hour (196,000 mph) and is now traveling out of the solar system.

For example, the report pointed out the population densities in Australia and Canada are 3.1 and 3.9 people per square kilometer.

Traveling at 27 miles per second (44 kilometers per second), the comet is headed away from the Earth and Sun on its way out of the solar sy... Read

RAYNE, La. (AP)-- A fire has broken out at a Louisiana chemical plant, sending massive smoke plumes in the air and prompting an evacuation for a mile (1.6 kilometers) all around.

In summary, we would point out that from 1960 to 1980 beef production in Central America increased 160 percent; of the 400,000 square kilometers of rain forest that existed in 1960 in Central America less than one - half remained by 1980 (Myers 1981).

The mountain top resort sits on Mont d'Arbois and with over 450 kilometers (280 miles) of surrounding ski - in, ski - out runs; Six Senses» guests have first access to untouched morning powder.

However, the highlight of the proceedings was a major crash with 30 kilometers to go that took out dozens of riders, including yellow jersey favorite Chris Froome.

Hunched tightly over his handlebars, his helmeted head lowered into an aerodynamically efficient position, LeMond rode all out, all the way, gaining precious seconds with each kilometer.

Villages appear every few kilometers intertwined with agriculture, and while cities are full and crowded, just get out and venture away and you will discover regions that promote their own artisan food products and locally grown specialties.

The ceasefire agreement spelled out some details — for example, FARC members can prepare for reintegration into civilian life by using these zones, which will have a one - kilometer wide safety ring.

The report finds that Lake Erie has the highest concentration of the beads out of all the Great Lakes with roughly 46,000 per square kilometer.

When the Jonathan administration came on board, only 5,000 out of the 35,000 kilometers of federal roads were motorable.

New York State also made a related $ 5 million URI investment in Gryphon Sensors, a company based in Central New York that has developed a state - of - the - art mobile Unmanned Traffic Management system called Mobile Skylight, which provides three dimensional detection of low - flying, small, UAS at a distance of out to 10 kilometers.

Carbondale, Ill., is just a few kilometers north of the point where this year's total solar eclipse will linger longest — the city will get two minutes and 38 seconds of total darkness when the moon blocks out the sun.

On April 30, if all goes well, after running out of fuel to fight off orbital decay NASA's long - running MESSENGER spacecraft will end its mission to Mercury by crashing into the planet's surface at nearly 4 kilometers per second.

The recently ejected material is spat out in opposite directions with immense speed — the gas shown in yellow is moving close to one million kilometers per hour (621,371 miles per hour).

The probe will swoop within 6.4 million kilometers of the sun and take the first direct measurements of the corona — and perhaps figure out more precisely where the corona becomes the solar wind.

Chang» e 2's movement also involves capabilities for deep space tracking and communication out to 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth, Belbruno pointed out, where L2 and another Lagrange point, L1, are located.

The panels did not require heavy racks that anchored deep in the roof for support but rather lay flat and spaced out to allow wind to flow through them, allowing them to withstand gusts up to 210 kilometers per hour as demonstrated during a test installation in Florida that survived a tropical storm.

The results thereby rule out a number of models of neutron star matter, namely all models that predict a neutron star radius smaller than 10.7 kilometers.

Every day, numerous cars and trucks are wearing on Norway's almost one hundred thousand kilometers of road: Asphalt wear on the tires, the tires wear on the asphalt, exhaust flows out from the vehicles and all is shrouded by road dust, until a rainfall cleanses the air, leaving all the dust and particles in the ditch.

Within a day, the wave reached the Doce River and traversed 600 kilometers — snuffing out aquatic life in its path — before spilling into the Atlantic Ocean on 21 November.

In June, JAXA scientists successfully tried out the reverse thrust engines that would try to slow Akatsuki from 37 kilometers per second to the 35 kilometers per second speed it would need to drop into Venus's orbit.

A starshade is a sunflower - shaped, paper - thin screen half as big as a football field that would float tens of thousands of kilometers directly ahead of WFIRST, blocking out a target star's light in much the same way one might blot out the sun in the sky with an extended thumb.

Then, as the models projected out into the future, the computer corrected the resulting simulations down to 25 - kilometer resolution.

Over the past 3 days, the volcano has sporadically sent ash plumes up to 9 kilometers (km) into the sky, leading airlines to cancel all flights into and out of Bali's main Denpasar International Airport, stranding a reported 50,000 travelers.

In 1996, an amateur archaeologist found a single upper arm bone sticking out of the steep riverbank — the first clue that the Tollense Valley, about 120 kilometers north of Berlin, concealed a gruesome secret.

In the real world, slabs are observed to behave in one of three ways: The slabs either stall at around 600 kilometers, stall out at the megameter boundary, or continue sinking all the way to the lower mantle.

Icebergs that have calved off the edge of the glacier are visible floating out to sea — but so are cracks hundreds of kilometers inland from Jakobshavn, on what would otherwise be a flat expanse of ice.

Simultaneously at one of the other carcass sites about three kilometers away, another badger attempted to bury a calf that had been staked out there.

AMANDA receivers are sunk as deep as 1.5 kilometers into antarctic ice to filter out all sources of radiation but neutrinos.

The researchers suggest that M. rainbowi could have dispersed the 10,000 kilometers from Africa to Australia by rafting on, for example, a large chunk of vegetation or debris that washed out to sea.

A 9 - mile wide (14 kilometers) asteroid struck off the coast of Mexico 66 million years ago, wiping out 75 percent of life on Earth.

She noted that if higher temperature alone were responsible for the rising plumes, they would be only 100 - 200 kilometers wide, ballooning out only when they approach the surface.

It's not a new phenomenon; this «thumb» of Antarctica, which juts out into the stormy Southern Ocean, has lost more than 28,000 square kilometers of floating ice — almost as large as Massachusetts — over the past half - century.

«These columns are clearly separated in the lower mantle and they go all the way up to about 1,000 kilometers below the surface, but then they start to thin out in the upper part of the mantle, and they meander and deflect,» she said.

They found that the Orientale strike hollowed out a crater some 320 to 460 kilometers wide — smaller than any of the rings.

Initially launched in Europe toward the end of 2013, the BMW i3 is made in Germany out of carbon fiber and aluminium and has a range of around 160 kilometers.

To find out, the Smithsonian Institution and Brazil's National Institute for Research in the Amazon have for two decades led an effort to monitor 11 rainforest patches — from 2.5 to 250 hectares in size — scattered throughout cattle pastures 70 kilometers north of Manaus, Brazil.