Sentences with phrase «meters of altitude»

If all radiation at 100 meters of altitude high has no chance of hitting the ground, WUWT?

Meant to scale 450 meters of altitude, the cable car should make the trip from Haifa's seaport up to its highest mountain peak in about 15 minutes.

Before you enjoy, walk and explore Machu Picchu you come to Aguas Calientes located at 2000 meters of altitude.

After you enjoy the trek and Machu Picchu you come down to Aguas Calientes located at 2000 meters of altitude.

The hotel Hostal de la Glòria is located in Viladrau, Catalonia, at 840 meters of altitude in the picturesque Montseny Natural Park.This small, charming Viladrau hotel is ideal for your holidays in Girona as well as for business travellers visiting Spain.Hostal de la Glòria offers swimming pool, solarium, terrace, restaurant, cafeteria, parking, TV and reading room, Internet point, garden, meeting and conference rooms, which are also ideal for weddings and banquets.

a.s.l., and impressive views of the snow - capped Mount Salkantay (6,271 meters of altitude).

In winter season, Sport Hotel Hermitage & Spa is a fantastic ski in & out resort; all 135 junior suites with balcony in a very privileged location at 1850 meters of altitude, with direct access to more than 210 kilometers of ski slopes.

In summer months, all types of mountain activities are available; including a nine - hole golf course, located at 2250 meters of altitude and being the highest in Europe, with breathtaking views of the balcony of the Pyrenees!

There is a place in the Swiss Alps at 1400 meters of altitude with a lake surrounded by foresty hills and cliffs, Lac Taney.

Teff can grow where many other crops won't thrive, and in fact can be produced from sea level to as high as 3000 meters of altitude, with maximum yield at about 1800 - 2100m high.

Not exact matches

«A Russian Su - 35 fighter jet, performing an air cover mission at an altitude of 10,000 meters, swiftly approached the F - 22 from the rear, forcing the American aircraft to leave the area.»

A crypto mining company has sent a balloon into the stratosphere to mine bitcoin on the edge of space, reaching over 35,000 meters in altitude.

Our vineyards and winery are located in the Gualtallary valley in Tupungato, Mendoza at an altitude of 1200 meters (4,000 feet).

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.

While the altimeter data also showed that the liquid in some of the canyons around Ligeia Mare is at sea level — the same altitude as the liquid in the sea itself — in others it sits tens to hundreds of feet (tens of meters) higher in elevation.

In a short but historic flight, one of the company's Boeing 747 - 400s flew more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from London Heathrow Airport to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, reaching a peak altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) during the 40 - minute flight, with one of its four engines burning a blend of 20 percent coconut and babassu oils mixed with regular petroleum - based jet fuel.

The 17 - meter - tall Electron is designed to launch 150 kilograms to an altitude of 500 kilometers, enough capacity to pack in dozens of CubeSats.

They will use helicopters to buzz some of the 400,000 pairs of king penguins on the 170 - km - long island of South Georgia, with five daily overflights every other day for 9 days at altitudes ranging from 500 to 2000 meters.

About 4,500 residents live in the region, at an altitude of 4,730 meters.

Remote - sensor cams deployed in a Himalayan valley at altitudes of up to 5,000 meters help ecologists gather data on one of the world's most furtive animals

At an altitude of about 5,200 meters on the Chajnantor Plateau, a Mars - like red expanse in Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place in the world, ALMA's matching antennas swivel in unison as observers collect light from cosmic objects.

The absolute risk of SIDS, however, remains low at all altitudes: 79 deaths per 100,000 infants above 2,400 meters; 40 per 100,000 infants below 1,800 meters.

When population geneticist Andrea Manica and graduate student Marcos Gallego Llorente at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom analyzed the sequence, they found that the Mota man had brown eyes and dark skin, as well as three gene variants associated with adaptation to high altitudes; some peaks in the highlands reach 4500 meters, as high as the Matterhorn.

He flew just over 275 meters, at an altitude of about five meters, over a lake in Quebec before losing power and falling in.

The subjects reached the outpost at 2650 meters altitude almost effortlessly, by cog railway and cable car, and once there could only take the same number of steps each day that they were accustomed to taking at home, as monitored with a pedometer.

To find out precisely what happens to the body at altitude, Roach's team sent her and the other volunteers to a camp near the summit of the top of Bolivia's 5421 - meter Mount Chacaltaya, once the site of the world's highest ski resort.

According to the researchers, who work with the Nature Conservation Foundation in Mysore, the animal largely keeps to the forests and lives at altitudes up of 3500 meters, making it one of the highest - dwelling primates in the world.

The northern site, which is operated by the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canaries, sits at an altitude of 2200 meters and is already home to the 2 MAGIC gamma - ray telescopes (pictured above).

Seven of the 10 World Cup venues are at an altitude of 1300 meters or higher; the other three are at sea level.

The mountain for which the park is named rises more than 5,000 feet (1,525 meters) straight up from the valley floor, reaching an altitude of 13,770 feet (4,200 m).

Each group lived in altitude training camps in the mountains near Salt Lake City at sites of various altitudes: Heber City (1780 meters), Park City (2085 meters), Deer Valley (2454 meters), and Guardsman's Pass (2800 meters).

Researchers trapped six male bumblebees (pictured) living at an altitude of 3250 meters in Sichuan, China, and placed them, one at a time, in a plexiglass flight chamber.

The high - altitude locale 5,000 meters above sea level will enable the ALMA's 12 - meter - wide dishes, at least 50 of them, to probe the shorter radio wavelengths near the infrared that the atmosphere tends to filter out.

Additional fins on the outside of the vehicle «steered it through 119 - mph [192 km / h] high - altitude crosswinds to a location precisely aligned with and 5,000 feet [1,500 meters] above the landing pad,» the release stated.

Interestingly, the expansion of farming to 3400 - plus meters happened just as the climate in Tibet was getting colder — not optimal conditions for settling already chilly higher altitudes.

* Correction, 2 March, 5:25 p.m.: This article has been corrected to reflect that P. flavescens dragonflies can travel at altitudes of more than 1000 meters, rather than 1000 kilometers.

To do this, the group operates a wind tunnel that enables experiments under subfreezing temperatures because it's in an unheated facility located in the Swiss Alps at an altitude of 1,670 meters (5,479 feet).

The scientists have been studying a population of snow voles (Chionomys nivalis) in their alpine habitat above Churwalden (Graubünden, Switzerland) at an altitude of around 2,000 meters since 2006.

Though once widespread, this endangered species is only limited to fragmental mountain forests, and the highest altitude (up to 4,500 meters) of any primate, making them a fascinating subject for evolutionary biologists to study to reveal the genetics behind their adaptations.

Another more recent example of international partnership, involving Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Chile, is the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), a radio interferometer telescope consisting of sixty - six antennas sitting at an altitude of 5,000 meters in the north of Chilehe Atacama Desert.

In 2012, a research group headed by Aalto University Professor Unto K. Laine proved that the source of sounds associated with the Northern Lights is located close to the ground at an altitude of approximately 70 meters.

The inversion layer hypothesis also provides answers to how it is possible that sound events occur almost simultaneously with visual observations: from an altitude of 75 meters the sound reaches the human ear in just 0.2 seconds.

The magnetic pulses that preceded these sounds proved that their sources were at an altitude of approximately 75 meters.

The antenna, which weighs about 100 tons and has a diameter of 12 meters, was lifted to the high - altitude Array Operations Site, where the extremely dry and rarefied air is ideal for ALMA's observations of the universe.

The astronomers were using only a partial array of 16 of ALMA's full complement of 66 giant antennas, as the observatory was still under construction on its 5000 - meter - altitude plateau in the Chilean Andes.

ALMA will be built on the Andean plateau at 5,000 meters altitude near the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

ALMA array from the air This image shows an aerial view of the Chajnantor Plateau, located at an altitude of 5000 meters in the Chilean Andes, where the array of ALMA antennas is located.

On July 3, an international workshop was held in honor of Professor Mutsumi Ishitukas 50 years of research in Peru at the Sycaya Astronomical Radio Observatory, which is located in the suburbs of Huancayo, Peru, at an altitude of 3300 meters.

The new images were taken Dec. 10 in the low - altitude mapping orbit (LAMO), from an altitude of only 240 miles (385 kilometers), and have a resolution of 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.

SOFIA mission public engagement & public outreach efforts, including maintaining the Science Center website and producing social media output, are jointly managed & implemented by SOFIA staff employed by USRA, the SETI Institute, and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that carries a telescope with an effective diameter of 100 inches (2.5 meters) at altitudes up to 45,000 feet (14 km), above the obscuring layer of water vapor in Earth's atmosphere.