Sentences with phrase «low altitude as»

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For those who prefer experiencing the beaches from above, there are also «low - altitude aerial sight - seeing trips» such as helicopter and seaplane flights.

This is NASA's push to figure out how unmanned aerial systems (UAS), such as drones that fly at a low altitude, can operate safely.

«Under our proposal everybody has to be collaborative — vehicles must be able to talk to each other and avoid each other as the airspace gets denser at low altitudes.»

I'm a fan of about 70 - 75 degrees, although at lower altitudes I hear 80 is fine as well.

The lack of low - altitude radar coverage as a factor in tornado - warning lead times was not mentioned in «A Better Eye on the Storm,» by Jane Lubchenco and Jack Hayes.

The batteries perform well in temperatures as low as − 60 degrees Celsius, unlike standard lithium - ion batteries, so they could power instruments in high - altitude drones and long - range spacecraft, Rustomji says.

For the lower - altitude fringes of the icy continent, and for the rest of the world (even Siberia and Greenland), the greenhouse effect still works as expected.

The theory of the giant collision, which is corroborated by these two independent studies, could explain why the northern hemisphere of Mars has a lower altitude than the southern hemisphere: the Borealis basin is most probably the remains of a giant collision, such as the one that in fine gave birth to Phobos and Deimos.

As Dawn continues the final phase of its mission, in which it will descend to lower altitudes than ever before, scientists will continue learning about the origins of the bright material on Ceres and what gave rise to the enigmatic features in Occator.

At low altitudes, about half the energy of such a bomb is released in the air blast, 35 percent as heat and 15 percent as nuclear radiation.

This implies that the circumference of the planet has increased as a result of a shift of mass from high altitudes to lower ones.

As the satellite orbits the Earth the star appears lower in the horizon, and ozone levels can be measured at any altitude, in 30 - metre slices.

In the past 50 years, as regional temperatures have warmed, the growth of bristlecone pine trees at high altitudes has been accelerating, whereas that of trees lower down the slopes has not, according to the results of a study published November 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

As a result, scientists typically ignore satellite data for altitudes lower than 15 kilometers, Ridley says.

The humidity can be as low as 10 %, there are intense ultraviolet rays from the sun, and the high altitude can leave people short of breath.

High altitudes are desirable for these particles, as the higher parts of the atmosphere are quite self - contained and particles can survive for much longer before being rained out, unlike in the lower and more dense parts of the atmosphere.

While the exact mechanism for charging and for initiating lightning within the Venusian clouds is not currently known (Yair 2012) it is nonetheless likely that cosmic ray ionization has an important role in this process as it is believed to be the primary source of atmospheric ions at middle and low altitudes.

Based on magnetic field measurements taken by the Messenger at an altitude as low as 9 miles, scientists have now discovered that Mercury, located just 36 million miles from the sun, possesses a magnetic field dating back almost four billion years.

As these vast, spinning weather systems gain energy, they suck in moist air from lower altitudes.

It would be sited at an altitude of 5,000 metres and would be operated almost as a space observatory, with a base camp for the human operators nearby at a lower height of no more than 3,000 metres.

As our planet warms, the speed difference between upper and lower altitude winds — known as «wind shear» — should increasAs our planet warms, the speed difference between upper and lower altitude winds — known as «wind shear» — should increasas «wind shear» — should increase.

«At altitude these flights reach temperatures as low as minus 90 degrees Celsius and air pressures of one - twentieth of the ground pressure.

«During the deep - dip campaigns, we lower the lowest altitude in the orbit, known as periapsis, to about 125 km, which allows us to take measurements throughout the entire upper atmosphere.»

He said the orbit's low point was at an altitude of 87 miles (140 kilometres), as of Monday.

With higher precipitation, portions of this snow may not melt during the summer and so glacial ice can form at lower altitudes and more southerly latitudes, reducing the temperatures over land by increased albedo as noted above.

Power: Gallium Arsenide triple junction solar arrays, 10 kW at Earth and 1.4 kW at Ceres Orbit Altitude: At target asteroids: As high as 4,500 km and as low as 25 km Reliability: Redundant and cross-strapped spacecraft bus electronics Mission Life: 10 yeaAs high as 4,500 km and as low as 25 km Reliability: Redundant and cross-strapped spacecraft bus electronics Mission Life: 10 yeaas 4,500 km and as low as 25 km Reliability: Redundant and cross-strapped spacecraft bus electronics Mission Life: 10 yeaas low as 25 km Reliability: Redundant and cross-strapped spacecraft bus electronics Mission Life: 10 yeaas 25 km Reliability: Redundant and cross-strapped spacecraft bus electronics Mission Life: 10 years

In this zone there is no thermal convection; while the material grows cooler as altitude increases, this temperature gradient is too low to drive convection.

Low frequency waves are better received at high altitudes and in dry climates, as this reduces the amount of noise.

My arrival by car to the high altitude, low attitude Telluride Film Festival is understandably, even fittingly, late, given the fest's relative proximity to the expansive, vermillion grandeur of Monument Valley, otherwise known as John Ford country.

«I clicked it, and it was a story about a seventh - grade student who decided to launch a high - altitude weather balloon into the top of the lower reaches of our atmosphere as an after - school project.»

With a magnification tool powerful enough to complete one continuous zoom from an altitude of 38,000 miles to as low as 25 feet, and an ever - expanding network of related resources, it's a practically limitless teaching tool — that is, for schools with the high - speed Internet access and late - model computers they'll need to run the program.

Research from Fordham, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, and elsewhere shows that these low - income «high flyers» are likeliest to «lose altitude» as they make their way through school.

However, the best snow is still found at higher altitudes as lower altitude resorts begin to find that slushy conditions make it hard for beginners.

Same as water boiling at sea level at 100C (212F) but at lower temp at high altitudes because pressure is less, same rule applies to refrigerant.

As stated, waiting until the engine is up to temperature will help but if you had access to a dynomometer (rolling road) at sea level and altitude you would get a lower power reading at altitude.

That can be due to persistent low oxygen content of the pet's blood, as occurs or when your pet's circulatory system or lungs are failing or living at high altitudes.

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Despite a lower altitude, the temperature at Pada Balong was as cold as that at the crater rim.

Altitude sickness, also known as acute mountain sickness (AMS), altitude illness, hypobaropathy, or Soroche, is a pathological effect of high altitude on humans, caused by acute exposure to low partial pressure of oxygen at high aAltitude sickness, also known as acute mountain sickness (AMS), altitude illness, hypobaropathy, or Soroche, is a pathological effect of high altitude on humans, caused by acute exposure to low partial pressure of oxygen at high aaltitude illness, hypobaropathy, or Soroche, is a pathological effect of high altitude on humans, caused by acute exposure to low partial pressure of oxygen at high aaltitude on humans, caused by acute exposure to low partial pressure of oxygen at high altitudealtitude.

This flight gives the most unique views by flying at a low altitude over the shallow flats of the Keys, and visitors get the chance to see marine wildlife such as sea turtles, dolphins and sharks from above.

Dam, they've got SAM sites and I have to bail out at low altitude before jumping into a Jeep and speeding off down the runway and leaping off into the abyss, at the last second before I hit the ground I leap out and open my parachute as the Jeep explodes into a ball of fire behind me.......

As the lower atmosphere warms what will happen to the mean altitude of nucleation and condensation?

Multiplied by the decreasing density with altitude (the other half), there is always just enough pressure for the lower layers of the atmosphere to hold up the upper layers and so on up leading to lower and lower pressure with altitude as there is less and less mass above each layer (hydrostatic equilibrium).

The authors speculate that the main reason hurricanes show this delta is that more of the precipitation is coming from high altitude (depleted in O - 18 based on gravitational potential) and in the form of large drops that do not have time to equilibrate wrt O - 18 in lower regions of the cloud as they fall.

As for the notion that you need to put up wind turbines at a greater height to capture the increased wind speeds, Dabiri notes that wind speeds at lower altitudes are sufficient to supply several times the world's electricity demand.

As a general rule, leaves are actually darker when there is less sunlight (shade, higher latitudes and lower altitude).

And, as the satellite observations of Spencer and Braswell showed, as the planet warms over a period of several months, clouds act as a net negative feedback (the reflecting low - altitude clouds increase more than the absorbing high - altitude clouds with warming).

What takes place at lower altitudes affects the relative temperatures in the atmosphere and on the surface, but as a whole the increased temperatures at a fixed height of the upper troposphere lead also to a warmer lower troposphere and surface.

If 100 Hiroshima - sized bombs, each as powerful as 15,000 tons of TNT, were exchanged in a war between two developing - world nuclear powers such as India and Pakistan, models show the resulting fires would send five million metric tons of black carbon into the upper troposphere - the lowest - altitude layer of the atmosphere.

Important GHGs, including low - altitude ozone and nitrous oxide, are increasing as an indirect consequence of human activity.