Sentences with phrase «kilometers per hour from»

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

Not exact matches

«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.

Still, the average speed during peak hours on expressways increased slightly to 39.8 miles (64.1 kilometers) per hour in 2014 from 39 miles (62.7 kilometers) per hour in 2004.

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.

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.

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.

Winds from a category 5 hurricane (the most severe), by comparison, reach about 250 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.

The burst occurred when a giant cloud of plasma ejected from the solar corona, and moving with a speed of about 2.5 million kilometers per hour struck our planet, causing a severe compression of Earth's magnetosphere from 11 to 4 times the radius of Earth.

Other states, including Florida and Texas, are proposing to build dedicated high - speed rails from scratch that would allow trains to reach top speeds of about 240 kilometers per hour.

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

If Curiosity survives its «Seven Minutes of Terror,» slowing from 21,240 kilometers per hour to a dead stop on the surface, it will demonstrate a brand new and downright scary - looking system for delivering heavy loads precisely where scientists want them.

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.

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).

«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.

On a drive home from the laboratory, researchers in Canada conducted a straightforward experiment: They traveled stretches of road with various speed limits (20, 50, 90, and 110 kilometers per hour) and tested how close a bird on or beside the road (like the magpie above) would allow the advancing car to come before fleeing its dangerous position — a measure called flight initiation distance.

They played videos of trucks approaching at speeds ranging from 60 to 360 kilometers per hour toward brown - headed cowbirds in an enclosed chamber and studied the birds» behavior.

It was a blustery day, and the wind threshold of the crane ranged from approximately 48 to 56 kilometers per hour, according to the manufacturer.

And its speed (about 100,000 kilometers per hour, or 62,000 miles per hour) rules out an origin within the solar system or the Oort cloud, where comets come from.

Astronomers have just clocked one hurtling away from the Milky Way at roughly 4.3 million kilometers (2.7 million miles) per hour.

While originally classified as a comet, observations from ESO and elsewhere revealed no signs of cometary activity after it slingshotted past the Sun on Sept. 9 at a blistering speed of 196,000 miles per hour (87.3 kilometers per second).

Colliding at speeds up to 22,000 miles per hour (36,000 kilometers per hour), such a collision may have stripped most of the rocky mantle from the protoplanet that became Mercury with its iron - rich core, while a Mars - size protoplanet struck the early Earth off - center and created a spray of mostly mantle material that later accreted to form the Moon.

The main Mickey face has a digital speedometer (in kilometers per hour) at its center surrounded by a wildly swinging power needle that ranges from Charge (during regenerative braking) on the left to Power (full acceleration) at the right.

It accelerates from 0 - 60 mph in 4.6 seconds with an electronically regulated top speed of 186 mph (300 kilometers per hour).

At speeds over 60 kilometers per hour, the Rear Vehicle Monitoring (RVM) system detects vehicles approaching from behind and alerts the driver.

When driving at speeds over 60 kilometers per hour, this system uses radar to detect vehicles approaching from behind and alerts the driver.

This car accelerates extremely quickly from zero to one hundred kilometers per hour taking just four seconds, but you can bet that other acceleration times — like 100 to 200 km / h are even more impressive, since losing traction becomes less of a problem there.

This all - wheel crossover will have the capability to accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in under five seconds.

Due to the geography along the route, the standard speeds permitted for this journey range from 30 to 45 kilometers per hour.

Weighing just 935 kilograms, the RXC is able to reach a top - end speed of 298 kilometers per hour, sprinting from 0 to 100 kph in just 2.6 seconds.

«For every kilometer in distance that an Indian household is from a substation, the wiring alone adds 2 cents per kilowatt - hour to the cost of power,» Carl Pope notes.

It ranges from category 1, for storms with winds of 64 to 82 knots (118 to 152 kilometers per hour (kph)-RRB-, which usually cause only moderate damage, to category 5, for storms with winds blowing at 137 knots (254 kph) or above, which can cause widespread devastation.

Lightning time series graphs include histograms of strokes per hour within 100 and 1,000 kilometers of the storm center, along with maximum wind speed and minimum pressure data from NRL (Figures 2b and 3) and a lightning density spectrogram binned by the distance from the storm center.

The 30 - kilowatt motor can accelerate the car from a dead stop to about 65 kilometers per hour.

It features a 147 horsepower gas - electric drivetrain with plenty of torque coming from the electric motors, a stripped interior and roll cage making it 180 kg (400 lbs) lighter and a zero - to - a-hundred kilometers per hour (0 - 62 miles / hour) time of 8.7 seconds.

Under the General settings, you'll be able to turn on the shock sensor, which will measure the impact of a collision, and change the unit settings from kilometers per hour to miles.

Autosport later noted that cars didn't reach 200 kilometers per hour (124.3 mph) in race trim in 2015, but didn't cite where the information came from.