Sentences with phrase «kilometers up»

On Venus, at about 50 kilometers up, at the same pressure of 1000mb, the Venus temperature (Kelvin) is about 339K.

Rather it shows where large plumes of smoke were lofted several kilometers up into the atmosphere.

Insisting that the only valid continuous temperature record is one taken from 10 or 12 kilometers up is nastily plausible and I haven't seen any real response to it.

Lower tropospheric temperature measured by satellites is heavily weighted by signals at higher altitudes, and is best reflected by temperatures at a few kilometers up.

The climate models all predict that as the planet warms, a hot spot of moist air will develop over the tropics about 10 kilometers up, as the layer of moist air expands upwards into the cool, dry air above.

Several proposals call for injecting microscopic particles, called aerosols, into the stratosphere, the quiet region of the atmosphere above the troposphere about 18 kilometers up from the equator.

Eight kilometers up the coast from...

The staff was welcoming, and the food was good, and it was surprisingly easy to get a tuk tuk into town despite being a few kilometers up the hill.

The last 2 kilometers up the hill are over a small road and my kids got more excited where we would end up.

This hike would take us from the Urabamba River Valley 15 kilometers up and over several mountains to our final destination of Machu Picchu.

Satellites «make their best guess» from 400 kilometers up, Vass says, and can track only conditions near the water's surface, but the gliders «feel the full breadth of the current.»

CFCs are fairly stable molecules so, once released, they almost always make their way up into the stratosphere, the layer of the Earth's atmosphere that starts about 10 - 20 kilometers up (depending on where on Earth you're located).

The more than 200 employees there were evacuated yesterday when the fire, sparked by lightning, raged on Bear Mountain, a few kilometers up the canyon from their buildings.

During one massive dust storm in 2006 and 2007, signs of water vapor were found at unusually high altitudes in the atmosphere, nearly 80 kilometers up.

This DRC drags rotating air downward from maybe four or five kilometers up and might cool the air in various places.

If that SO2 makes it to the stratosphere — the middle layer of the atmosphere 10 kilometers up — it forms droplets of diluted sulfuric acid, known as aerosols.

Next month, researchers in the U.K. will start to pump water nearly a kilometer up into the atmosphere, by way of a suspended hose.

Philae project manager Stephan Ulamec explained how, after impact on Wednesday, the lander rebounded at 38 centimeters per second, traveling a kilometer up in space, and a kilometer laterally across the surface.

By contrast, with each kilometer up or down a mountain, climes can vary greatly.

Not exact matches

It can travel a distance of up to 685 miles (1,100 kilometers) before it needs to refuel, making it a great, albeit flashy, way to travel.

Musk said the Hyperloop arrangement could be implemented between any pair of cities situated up to, say, 900 miles (1,500 kilometers) apart.

The basics: The Tiguan GTE can be plugged in to charge, but it also offers a solar roof module that generate electrical energy fed directly into the battery, which allows for up to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) of zero emissions driving.

Gartner told The South China Morning Post that the Chinese firm had successfully obtained government clearance for the initiative, which employs a fleet of 30 drones that can deliver packages weighing from 5 to 15 kilograms for a distance of up to 50 kilometers.

Soon, though, he graduated to filling up giant, 60,000 - liter fuel tankers at a ranch called «El Caracol,» connected by buried hose to a pipeline about 3 kilometers away.

When I was growing up in Austria, about 20 kilometers outside Innsbruck, I wanted to become a chef.

China «has certainly expressed its interest» in upping its military presence on Vanuatu, an 80 - island archipelago 1,750 kilometers (1,090 miles) east of the Australian coast, a senior defense official told 9News.

Those with a range greater than 400 kilometers (249 miles) on a single charge now come with a 50,000 yuan ($ 7,881) cashback incentive, up from 44,000 yuan ($ 6,937) last year, according to Bloomberg.

The MSC1 is a short - hop device that resembles a tiny telephone booth attached to rotors, capable of carrying eight kilograms a distance of up to eight kilometers.

The Model X is available in two engine configurations, both equipped with a 90KW battery that yields a range of up to 413 kilometers (257 miles) between charges.

The attackers reportedly rode up in pickup trucks and opened fire on the buses in Egypt's Minya province, about 220 kilometers from Cairo.

Some of these systems can reach up to 8.57 miles or 13.8 kilometers.

He ended up going for a four kilometer run with his father just to burn off some steam while I prepped his birthday breakfast.

Especially when we stopped to pick up two toddlers halfway through our drive, spending the remainder of the trip taking turns singing, telling jokes, and playing peek - a-boo in an effort to distract them from their mounting hunger, and ourselves from the sign that said home was still 39 kilometers away.

He showed up for the sanctioned North American races in Crested Butte, Colo. last winter but hurt his shoulder in practice and could not enter the 15 - kilometer cross-country run.

Instead, riders will tackle up - and - down terrain before settling into flat, sprint - stage mode for the final 60 - ish kilometers.

I'm only now realizing the extent to which Laidlaw and Peter Oosterhuis dwell on the wind, which is gusting up to 30 kilometers per hour in Spain.

Caves extend up to 70 feet deep, with some retaining ice and snow well into the middle of summer, while the edge of the limestone cliffs at the Scenic Caves has views of the Georgian Bay and countryside that span 10,000 kilometers.

Hundreds showed up at rallies in Fort Lauderdale, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) away, and in St. Petersburg, 250 miles (400 kilometers) northwest, to demand action on gun - control legislation.

The map also shows that some small impact craters up to 2,000 kilometers from Orientale have been filled in with plains material.

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.

For those who can't make it to the eclipse path, or who get stuck under cloudy skies, the ballooning project will serve up live feeds from a vantage point unlike any other: roughly 30 kilometers above the ground.

Field studies in southeastern Morocco, just a few kilometers away from the site of this dust storm, show that electric fields generated by blowing sand boost dust emissions up to 10 times more than expected from wind alone.

A network of smaller peatlands in the Amazon Basin adds up to 629,000 square kilometers, an even larger area than the Congo find, says study coauthor Louis Verchot of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Cali, Colombia.

We did a full analysis of Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator, an organism we found again and again in different mines in South Africa at the greatest depths — never above 2 kilometers (1.2 miles)-- that made up 99.9 percent of the DNA in some of our samples.

If the polymers can release that hydrogen on demand — a feat not yet shown — they could lead to plastic gas tanks that carry cars hundreds of kilometers between fill ups.

They placed small (1 to 2 feet wide) starshades midway between a telescope mounted on a tripod and five light sources (LEDs) lined up 2 kilometers away.

Aral ended up with a vast, anonymized dataset of more than 1.1 million runners who logged more than 359 million kilometers (223 million miles) over five years.

The ambitious, unprecedentedly vast Square Kilometer Array project should open up new realms in astrophysics.

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

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.