Sentences with phrase «millions of miles across»

Nor is it a particularly small region, measuring millions of miles across.

Instead of the relatively stable environment that was expected at the brink of interstellar space, the Voyagers have encountered what some scientists have described as a «magnetic jacuzzi,» a region where the sun's magnetic field appears to be ripping apart and reconnecting, forming bubbles millions of miles across.

Not exact matches

Hubble was about 400 - 500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's backlit silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:

Google already has a fleet of 48 robot cars that have clocked in more than 2 million miles on private tracks, highways and roads across the U.S.

The Calgary, Alberta - based company reached $ 176 million consent decree with U.S. regulators in 2016 that required inspections of additional pipelines in Enbridge's Lakehead network, a web extending some 2,000 miles across seven states.

Tabbed in 1961 by Roone Arledge (then an ABC executive producer) to be the host of a new sports anthology, McKay became a kind of explorer, traveling nearly five million miles, across 40 countries, over the next 36 years to seek out and report on sport's exotic secrets.

That was especially true in Canada but even more so in Saskatchewan, a province of 1.1 million people spread across some 251,700 square miles.

Trout season is in full swing and there are more than 2.3 million catchable brook, brown, and rainbow trout can be found in over 309 lakes and ponds, and in roughly 2,900 miles of streams across the state.

It will contain a $ 20 million annual increase in funding for security in major parks across the five boroughs and the expansion of a crime - fighting tool known as ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to detect gunfire, to cover 60 square miles across the city.

Back when transistor radios were hip, Mariner 4 sent these first close - up views of Mars across 134 million miles using a puny 10 - watt radio transmitter.

Across the way, a canopy of mist hovers over one of the world's most ancient rainforests, an expanse of some 465 square miles that is more than 100 million years old.

If our eyes could see radio waves, this field, not the rings, would be Saturn's largest and most distinctive feature — a teardrop - shaped envelope of radio - emitting particles that may extend a million miles across.

Revival of the shrunken sea hinges on an $ 85 million renovation of Kazakhstan's dilapidated system of river canals, sluices, and channels, culminating in an eight - mile dam across the middle of the northern part of the sea.

Mission scientists used state - of - the - art computer simulations to show that the surface of Sputnik Planum is covered with icy, churning, convective «cells» 10 - 30 miles across, and less than a million years old.

B - Cycle, the company that designs the bike - sharing systems used in Denver and more than 20 other cities across the country, says that on all of its systems combined, 2.1 million bike trips covering 4.5 million miles have been made on its bicycles since 2010, all of which have offset more than 2,948 metric tons of CO2 emissions and saved more than 330,000 gallons of gasoline, B - Cycle spokeswoman Marina Marich said.

One under Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is thought to have triggered massive volcanism, spewing lava across 580,000 square miles (1.5 million square km) at the Deccan Plateau region of what is now India about 65 million years ago, coinciding with the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.

To put the sheer size of π1 Gruis's convection cells in context, our Sun has roughly two million cells, each of which is a (relatively) measly 1,500 km (932 miles) across.

In 2013, researchers determined that one massive black hole measuring more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) across was spinning at around 84 percent of the speed of light [source: Fazekas].

It had just completed a 5 - year trek across some 2.8 billion kilometers (1.74 million miles) of space.

With land that covers 3.8 million square miles, it can be a challenge to pinpoint the best US date spots across the country, but we have done our best to give you a little taste of everything in our suggestions below.

GM says it knows HD pickups are often used for towing in adverse conditions so they are testing the bejeesus out of the trucks: Before they're released to dealers, the trucks will undergo more than 6 million miles (240 trips around the earth) of durability testing in the torture chambers at GM's Milford Proving Ground, over deserts and mountains of Nevada and across the frozen flats of Kapuskasing, Ontario.

Like the existing CTS, the V - Series is the product of an intensive development process across North America and Europe, including famed test tracks and millions of miles of road.

Inside the chamber of the Constituent Assembly on the night of 14 August 1947, two thousand princes and politicians from across the one and a quarter million square miles that remained of India sat together on parliamentary benches.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land — in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

Considering that VZ's wireless network stretches across the country, with its LTE network covering more than 2.4 million square miles, and the fact that the company ranks No. 1 in speed, data, and reliability tests, the chance of a newcomer to the wireless arena taking away market share is virtually nonexistent.

Millions of dogs and cats are stolen each year, including pets, and driven thousands of miles across China to be bludgeoned to death in front of each other.

Having sailed more than one million miles in waters across the world, The Royal Yacht Britannia is now moored in Edinburgh and considered one of Scotland's top visitor attractions.

Riddled with holes and spread across a reef more than 1 mile wide, the coral mounds contain millions of hiding places for a dazzling array of tropicals.

AwardWallet is simply the easiest way to track your miles when they number in the millions across dozens of accounts.

He's earned several million miles during his past five years of travel hacking, and has a balance of more than 1.5 million miles across several different accounts.

The Miles to Memories team earns millions of miles / points each year to take amazing trips across the globe.

Along the way, I have collected (and spent) millions of points and miles across all the major and some not - so - major frequent traveler programs.

It spread across 4.63 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean, Hudson Bay and adjacent areas of the North Atlantic — an area 224,000 square miles smaller than the previous low record for the month set in 2004.

Their annual migration is one of the most awe - inspiring on Earth: Each fall, millions of these striking black - and - orange butterflies take flight on a 3,000 - mile journey across the U.S. and Canada to wintering grounds in Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains.

Although the temperature at surface of the sun is 5800K, by the time it has spread out across 93 million miles of space it is too diffuse.

The company, Oncor, which has 119,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines delivering power to more than three million homes and businesses, surprised the energy world last month when it announced that it was willing to spend billions of dollars by 2018 to install some 25,000 batteries across Texas that would store electricity to be discharged when needed.

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For millions of years, great global winds known as Aeolian winds have transported sand and dust from land, across thousands of miles of Ocean.

Previous studies mapped the extent and frequency of understory fires across a study area (green) spanning 1.2 million square miles (3 million square kilometers) in the southern Amazon forest.

Columbus landed in 1492 and did a population survey across a few million square miles of continent?

But other options exist, and the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility has recently dusted off one of them: closing 42nd Street to traffic from river to river and creating a $ 500 million, 2.5 - mile street - level light - rail line that could whisk passengers across the entire width of Midtown in a mere 21 minutes.

Doubling the efficiency of the average Class 8 tractor - trailer from 6.5 miles per gallon to 12.3 mpg across the U.S. fleet (half a million trucks) can save 3.8 billion gallons of diesel, or $ 7.6 billion assuming $ 2 per gallon price of diesel.

Even with 2.7 million miles of pipelines across the US, there are plans

To contrive an entirely fictional example, suppose in the 1910s there were only eight stations measuring temperatures across a million square miles of the Canadian Arctic, and six of them were in the southern half of the territory.

There's no conduction or convection to do it across 93 million miles of vacuum.

He helped the company save 90 million miles driven across country, reduced packaging, and launched the sustainability index, giving him some leeway to state that «sustainability is part of the business model.»

Since 1999, ExxonMobil has produced more than 1 million barrels of oil and 656 million metric cubic feet of natural gas from Colorado deposits, according to the complaint, and ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy currently produces 130 million cubic feet of natural gas per day from more than 864 square miles across three Colorado counties.