Sentences with phrase «lower the altitude of»

Beans harvested in lower altitudes of the region are typically associated with higher mold content, whereas our cacao is third - party tested for quality control and safety, consistently reporting undetectable levels.
Engineers lowered the altitude of Rosetta's orbits in the hopes of attaining more durable radio links.
Meanwhile, ESA reports that the Trace Gas Orbiter — the main scientific rationale for the ExoMars 2016 mission — is in good health, and is set to begin slowly lowering the altitude of its orbit so that it can begin looking for methane and other gases that could signal life on Mars.
To make technical operations and everyday work easier, a base camp has been built at a lower altitude of about 2900 m.
Spend a night or two getting used to the relatively low altitude of Aguas Calientes, at about 6,700 feet, then explore Machu Picchu before returning to Cusco.
In the lower altitudes of the red rock deserts to the south, visitors have access to many of the great Anasazi archaeological sites of the American Southwest.
Galarneau: When forecasting for thunderstorms and heavy rainfall, one of the key ingredients meteorologists look for is enhanced water vapor at low altitudes of the atmosphere.
(The low altitude of the stratosphere was a factor.)

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So far, only the Pentagon has carried out tests of such technologies, but at low altitudes.
The majority of the panel — made up of about 70 industry, labor, and law enforcement experts — agreed that technology already exists or will soon come to market that can track small drones at low altitudes.
This beauty features a constant flow of air at a lower altitude, lighting to match the appropriate time for your body clock, larger windows with button controlled shades, more space and comfort, and design that provides a quieter flight.
Once the carrier reaches high enough altitude and speed, it releases the Unity, which can then travel at 3,000 mph to the lower reaches of space.
Allen's move coincides with a surge of new businesses planning to sell internet access, Earth imagery, climate data and other services from networks of hundreds of satellites in low - altitude orbits ar...
However, the low altitude flight profile of an attacking Tomahawk, its ability to use terrain masking for cover and concealment and its relatively small size, significantly smaller than a manned combat aircraft, make it a difficult target for even the most advanced air defense systems.
The missile currently flies to its target at low altitude and subsonic speeds of about 550 miles per hour.
Get quick access to reference documentation for the entire AirMap platform of APIs and SDKs for low - altitude airspace intelligence and complex mission enablement.
Last year, we collaborated with the FAA and industry partners to create the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC), which automates air traffic control authorizations for drone flights in controlled airspace in the U.S, and became the UTM provider for the state of Kansas.
For items that are going to be in the oven longer than cookies, like muffins or cakes, I also add a little moisture (maybe an extra 2 Tbsp per cup), to counteract the drying effect of the extra time things have to spend in the oven to finish cooking at high altitude (lower boiling point, and all that).
I live in the Rocky Mountains outside of Denver at about 8300 ft.. It took me several years to «fix» my low altitude recipes for up here.
We've tried this recipe quite a bit in the bread maker, but we're at higher altitude, so getting the yeast right was tricky (we had to lower it, but it was difficult to dial in the amount of yeast and liquid at higher altitude).
The air Rakhra injects into the compost elevates the growing area's oxygen level to mimic that of a lower altitude.
Because cookies bake for a shorter amount of time than bread or cakes, and are relatively low in water and high in fat content, they're much less susceptible to the vagaries of high - altitude baking.
Due to the impeccable cleanliness of our factories and the high altitude where this Cacao is processed, it has a very low lead count, unlike many other cacao products on the market today.
However, since fermentation of sugar is faster at higher altitudes, breads rise in one - third the time noted for lower altitudes.
I'm a fan of about 70 - 75 degrees, although at lower altitudes I hear 80 is fine as well.
It also has the advantage of being able to withstand warmer climates, preferring constant temperatures between 75 and 85 degrees, which enables it to grow at far lower altitudes than arabica.
That kind of power carried Johnson to a low - altitude 100 - meter world record of 9.95 in Moscow last summer (the official record is Calvin Smith's altitude - aided 9.93) and to world indoor marks for 50 and 60 meters this winter.
There are different versions of altitude training, though — some live and train high, some live high, train low, and some live low, train high, and coupled with different sports AND different training styles within the same sport... the effects may not be clear or homogeneous.
You may already know that high altitudes create lower air density, but you may not realize the full impact of the mile - high air in Denver.
Oriente Petrolero are from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, a low lying city without the conditions of extreme altitude — which many visitors to Bolivia find so troublesome.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, has been leading research into how to manage an expected boom in air traffic from the operation of low - altitude unmanned aerial systems, or drones, across the nation.
In the summer months, the county's Division of Vector Control typically conducts a blanket application of methoprene via helicopters flying at low altitude over Accabonac Harbor, Napeague, and Beach Hampton in Amagansett.
NASA has been leading research into how to manage an expected boom in air traffic from the operation of low - altitude unmanned aerial systems, or drones, across the nation.
Incorporating this kind of data into the models has been difficult in part because geostationary data provide fewer measurements for any given vertical slice of the atmosphere than do polar orbiters, which circle Earth at lower altitudes.
Between 2000 and 2012, low - altitude concentrations of CH2Cl2 vapor rose, on average, about 8 % per year, he adds.
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 false colors represent the altitudes of the various cloud layers — blue being the highest and red being the lowest.
The results of the science panel's decision have not been made public, but low construction costs and the high altitude of the site in the remote northern reaches of the country were believed to have given it the edge.
How big is the impact of high and low pressure areas on the altitude of landmasses?
This suggests that temperature drives the sex of low altitude litters, while genes determine gender further up the mountain.
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.
While more than 80 percent of US suicides occur in low - altitude areas, that's because most of the population lives near sea level.
Aerosol nucleation is known to require sulphuric acid, but Kirkby's team found that it is not enough by itself at low altitudes — the presence of an additional organic trace vapour is needed (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature10343).
Spend 40 years by the shores of the Dead Sea, at the lowest elevations on the Earth's surface, and you'll age 48 microseconds less than someone living at sea level, and 750 microseconds less than the residents of La Rinconada in Peru, at an altitude of 5100 metres
Dawn is now entering a low - altitude mapping orbit around Ceres, and will soon quadruple the resolution of its best images of the surface.
For years Chakrabarti and his colleagues have been pursuing a middle way between the laboratory and orbit, using NASA funding to conduct low - cost test flights of these advanced optics technologies with small suborbital rockets and high - altitude balloons that reach the edge of outer space.
The clock's mechanical parts left its accuracy at the mercy of shifting temperatures, pressures and even Earth's gravitational pull, since pendulums swing faster at lower altitudes and at Earth's poles.
The gathering will draw approximately 400 representatives from other Arctic nations and interested foreign observers, and will give Obama a platform to highlight how changes in the Arctic will affect the rest of the world by accelerating warming, contributing to sea - level rise and changing precipitation patterns at lower altitudes.
Although Bd poses less of a threat to frogs in the lowlands, this study suggests that species at lower elevations are more susceptible to climate changes, putting them at risk if they are unable to adapt or move to higher altitudes.
Sonic booms have caused alarm and damage when they have been produced in isolated cases by supersonic military jets flying over thinly populated areas; to allow a new fleet of booming supersonic transports to pass over cities at low altitudes during operations near metropolitan airports is clearly impossible.»
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