Sentences with phrase «millions of miles above»

The Sun has an outer atmosphere extending millions of miles above its surface called the corona.

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right above links to 5 moments that changed the world, from history.com the last article says about the space station, the said that the space station is millions of miles from earth????? Such liars... It is 350 miles in the lower level of the atmosphere, what a plunder.

«And he's probably sitting there thinking «I think I've bitten off more than I can chew here and Man City are a million miles above us and I need to sort of find a way of getting out of here».

The tremendous amount of magma that was ejected from Mt. Aso millions of years ago caused the surface of the volcano to cave in, leaving behind the world's largest above - ground active caldera — the circumference of the caldera is around 80 miles.

Now, using NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, scientists have found that this atmosphere, called the corona, is even larger than thought, extending out some 5 million miles above the sun's surface — the equivalent of 12 solar radii.

BOGOTÁ — Nearly a mile above this city of almost eight million is a rugged, fog - shrouded world, silent except for the trickle of water and whispering wind pushing through the treeless tundra.

Rooted in the Solar Magnetic Field, the structure of the corona is visible extending a million miles above the Sun's surface in this composite image from the EIT and UVCS instruments onboard the SOHO spacecraft.

This view of Saturn's moon Enceladus above the planet's ring plane was captured by the narrow - angle camera of NASA's Cassini spacecraft at a distance of approximately 630,000 miles (1 million kilometres) from the tiny water world.

Its location is approximately 124 million miles (200 million kilometers) from Earth — the distance between Mars and Jupiter — though its outbound path is about 20 degrees above the plane of planets that orbit the Sun.

A million miles removed from such peripherally comparable fare as Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us or Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies, Joshua Z Weinstein's fiction - feature debut gets right under the skin of its characters, gently unpicking themes of social conformity and religious responsibility with melancholy wit and wry, tragicomic insight.

Seven of them shelled out tens of millions of dollars for a trip on Russian Soyuz rockets to travel 200 miles above Earth's surface to visit the International Space Station.

Researchers are still hunting for plausible reasons why the area of Antarctic sea ice for May was an above - average 4.64 million square miles (12.03 million square kilometers), according to the NSIDC, despite the multi-year overall increase in global surface temperatures.