Sentences with phrase «less than a kilometer thick»

But the rings are amazingly thin, estimated to be less than a kilometer thick.

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Although the main rings are more than 250,000 kilometers (more than 14,000 miles) wide, they are likely less than one kilometer thick.

Helheim Glacier is five kilometers wide and at the calving front less than 1 km thick, from 2001 - 2005 it retreated 8 km, you are looking at less than a contribution of 40 km3 for a five kilometer retreat over a span of four years.

«An «ice - free» Arctic Ocean is often defined as «having less than 1 million square kilometers of sea ice», because it is very difficult to melt the thick ice around the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Lindsay; 4.0 million square kilometers; Model The predicted mean ice extent in September is 3.99 + / - 0.30 million square kilometers, a record low, and it is based on the fractional area of ice and open water less than 0.4 m thick (G0.4) obtained from model retrospective simulations.