Sentences with phrase «kilometers per hour at»

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[Comments made during video: We're traveling at 27,000 kilometers per hour, or roughly 18,000 miles an hour.

The Hyperloop would send travelers through low - pressure tubes in specialized pods that zoom at high subsonic speeds, reaching more than 700 mph (1,100 kilometers per hour).

«If you can move people from city to city at 1,200 (745 miles per hour) to 1,300 kilometers per hour, you have a system that can reshape society,» he explained, suggesting that as distances shrink, economic productivity could increase as traffic disappears.

They are not quite there yet, but the company claims that they achieved a test speed record «of nearly 387 kilometers per hour» (240 miles per hour, 107 meters per second) at their full - scale test track in Nevada.

They fly at an average speed of 36 kilometers or 22 miles per hour.

Whether it's reported in knots, miles or kilometers per hour, we can measure the wind as it is happening and whether or not it is windy at any given location and time is not as questionable as the existence of an all - powerful creator.

The law requires motorists to travel at 50kph on standard roads, 80 kilometers per hour on a highway and 100 kilometers per hour on a motorway, but this is largely ignored.

They will climb to 15 kilometers in the stratosphere and fly in the path of the total solar eclipse over Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee at 750 kilometers per hour.

Humans and cheetahs are a case in point: Although the two humans included in the team's study weighed in at 70 kilograms and had an average top speed of about 41 kilometers per hour, the heftiest cheetah weighed about 5 kilograms less but ran nearly three times as fast.

Slide Show: Space Weather On March 10, 1989, a CME about the size of 36 Earths erupted from the sun's roiling surface and ripped through space at a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

Spacecraft screaming along at many thousands of kilometers per hour have to hit the brakes hard, firing retrorockets to swing into orbit.

Measurements of a Tyrannosaur's fossilized footprint help researchers estimate that the ancient beast was at the time walking between 4.5 and 8 kilometers per hour (2.8 to 5 miles per hour).

One previous study of a single footprint of a large tyrannosaur suggests that the beast could have been traveling as fast as 11 kilometers per hour (6.8 miles per hour), says Eric Snively, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Such a voyage is a straight shot westward and would take about 3 weeks of daytime sailing at typical Viking ship speeds (which, for the uninformed, is about 11 kilometers per hour).

The solar wind is a stream of electrically conducting gas continuously blowing from the Sun's surface into space at about one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

Let's say a driver approaches a red light at 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour) and coasts to slow down, then the light turns green and he or she floors the accelerator.

The scientists estimated water coursed over the escarpment through Noto Canyon, flowing at up to 160 kilometers per hour and spilling over a 1.5 - kilometer - high waterfall into the Mediterranean's briny eastern basin.

The analysis, reported in the 10 August issue of the Astrophysical Journal, showed that cool, denser gas inside the spot sank into the sun at about 5000 kilometers per hour.

Outside, in exposed parts of the city, winds were gusting at up to 160 kilometers per hour as the storm made landfall.

Near the end of its life, a huge star blasts much of its bloated outer atmosphere into space — a torrent of gas equal to Earth's mass each year, racing outward at 10 million kilometers per hour.

Based on the wavelengths of spectral lines emitted by the luminous gas surrounding the black hole, the object is traveling at a speed of about 7.5 million kilometers per hour — a rate that would carry it from Earth to the moon in about 3 minutes.

That's equivalent to a human moving at 500 kilometers per hour.

One such star is hurtling away from the Milky Way at roughly 4.3 million kilometers per hour, researchers report in the March 6 Science, making it the fastest - moving star to be ejected from our galaxy.

On October 19, the comet whizzed past the Red Planet at a little more than 20,000 kilometers per hour.

That's when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with the two - ton, bus - size spacecraft as it plunges into the giant planet's turbulent atmosphere at more than 122,000 kilometers per hour.

Akatsuki's 2 - year mission aims to peel away some of the mystery of Venus's dense, cloudy atmosphere, which sweeps over the planet at speeds exceeding 300 kilometers per hour, or 60 times faster than Venus itself rotates.

But how do the birds track these familiar sites hundreds of meters below as they zip by at 65 kilometers per hour?

Tata Motors may have dealt with this problem by adding a small gas motor that kicks in at 55 kilometers per hour.

In order to remotely brake a car traveling at more than 100 kilometer per hour, it was enough for the American security researcher Stephen Checkoway to use the music player software installed in the car together with a smartphone connected to it.

Although so - called bullet trains in France can travel at speeds approaching 575 kilometers per hour, their adoption in the U.S. has been more local than express.

Over the last decade, the solar plasma around Voyager 1 has thinned as the spacecraft hurtles toward the edge of the bubble at more than 60,000 kilometers per hour.

And the flows can travel at incredibly high speeds down the sides of a volcano; an estimate of the average speed of the pyroclastic flow down the slopes of Mount Saint Helens in Washington State during its 1980 eruption (also Plinian) was around 230 kilometers per hour.

Previous surveys by Cassini have found that winds whip through the atmosphere over Saturn's north pole at more than 500 kilometers per hour — 30 percent faster than any gust ever recorded in a cyclone on Earth.

Most water ripples are much smaller, however, coming from the more common winds that blow at between three and 11 kilometers per hour.

The machine forms two smoke rings of plasma, one near each end, by a proprietary process and fires them toward the middle at nearly a million kilometers per hour.

The jets ascend at 180,000 to 360,000 kilometers per hour from 300 - kilometer - wide bright spots on the surface called spicules.

MRO's new images support this interpretation and strongly suggest that the sizable dark patch is a crater produced when Schiaparelli struck the surface at greater than 300 kilometers per hour after a two - to - four - kilometer free fall.

Wind, for instance, is a vectorial quantity, because at any given location it has a direction (such as northeast) and a magnitude (say, 45 kilometers per hour).

His team calculated that the forces that fractured Lucy's upper arm were equal to a fall from a height of about 13.7 meters — as high as a four - story building or the top of a tall tree, such as a mature acacia tree — at a velocity of about 59 kilometers per hour.

Iridium's satellites (pdf) operate in near - circular low Earth orbits (LEO) about 780 kilometers above the surface, traveling at about 27,000 kilometers per hour and circling the planet in about 100 minutes.

Four to six tracks would run up the outside of the tower and cable, carrying electromagnetic vehicles at speeds reaching thousands of kilometers per hour to platforms at various levels.

The spacecraft approached the comet at just a few kilometers per hour — a gentle walking pace — but the probe wasn't designed for landings and was likely damaged.

Spanish astronomers spotted a meteoroid impact at 61,000 kilometers per hour using a telescope network that automatically scans the moon.

Assuming oil needs to be at least 1 micrometer thick to create a visible sheen, he explains, and assuming that an oil slick that thin has a 72 - hour lifespan at the surface, a leak of 14 gallons per day could only create a visible sheen 1.6 kilometers long by 91 meters wide.

It also is hoped the probe will help astrophysicists find out why there's no organized solar wind (made up mostly ions and electrons) found in the vicinity of the sun's surface, even though it whips through the solar system at speeds ranging from about 670,000 to 1.8 million miles (1.1 million to 2.9 million kilometers) per hour.

The mandibles of the trap - jaw ant Odontomachus brunneus can whip shut at speeds over 40 meters per second (144 kilometers per hour), instantaneously maiming a prey insect or enemy ant.

Gas from the comet is likely to have hit Mars, and would have done so at a speed of 125,000 miles per hour (56 kilometers per second).

During its dive, Cassini swooped to within 3,000 kilometers of the planet's atmosphere and 300 kilometers of the innermost edge of the rings at 124,000 kilometers per hour.

Now, astronomer Pilar Ruiz - Lapuente of the University of Barcelona and her colleagues claim to have identified the murderous star, which survived the ordeal but was flung into space at a breakneck speed of almost 500,000 kilometers per hour after its partner's demise.

«The wind was blowing 30 miles [48 kilometers] per hour this morning,» says Arnold Boezaart, vice president for grant programs at the Community Foundation for Muskegon County, whose four - story arts complex boasts the first commercial SWIFT attached to a mast jutting from its outside wall.