Sentences with phrase «millions of miles long»

When a comet passes through the inner solar system, it leaves behind a trail of dust millions of miles long.

Jupiter's fast 10 - hour rotation stirs up its insides and generates a huge magnetic field that is a few million miles wide and up to hundreds of millions of miles long.

Not exact matches

Thanks to its long history of working with the Department of Defense, AeroVironment has already logged an estimated 1 million miles of flights to date.

Despite astronomers» long - standing interest in it, however, it's mysterious: It's hundreds of millions of miles away, and only a handful of spacecraft have taken detailed images of it.

And when you're tasked with building and launching spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from Earth, on missions that take several years, long - term planning is pretty critical.

During hundreds of flights and millions of miles over a long and heavily traveled career, the flight home to California had always felt exactly like that, like I was going home.

For the sake of argument you take them a long way apart — miles or millions of miles — and all the time the total spin would remain constant.

In the winter, the men «went to the bush» for long months in rough company and risky work, until the great spring drive when the Ottawa River, more than a mile wide, was filled with the booms of millions of logs heading south to feed an insatiable market for wood.

He told a conference of business leaders: «I remember lying there during those long months of recovery and suddenly this dream that I had clung to so tightly and for so long, of climbing Everest, just felt a million miles away.

Last year's event drew a chain of motorcycles seven miles long and brought the total number of donations to more than a half - million dollars during the past 12 years.

Several years laterLorillard spent the balance of $ 2 million building a golf course, a racetrackand a mile - long toboggan slide lit by electricity.

As I've said numerous times, none of us know what will happen after Wenger, but given the obvious regression in recent years, the finances, and the quality of our squad, and the fact Arsenal have been a million million miles off the top for so long, I honestly believe we will progress.

In 2011, Brian passed legislation and negotiated a deal between the State and the City to create $ 200 million worth of new parkland and open space on Manhattan's East Side, including a mile - long esplanade from East 60th Street south to 38th Street, which will close the last major gap in the greenway circling the island.

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, is a pair of three - mile - long gravitational - wave detectors in Washington and Louisiana that cost $ 365 million and took 11 years to build, and yet they may just barely be able to pick up signals from the ultraviolent collisions that give birth to massive black holes.

The ancestors of hobbits probably left the rift area of Africa (Ardi's home) for Southeast Asia on foot about 2 million years ago, ultimately crossing treacherous ocean waters to land on the narrow, 230 - mile - long Indonesian island of Flores.

Preparing to retire in 2001, Wilcox sold the 12 - mile - long property through intermediaries to Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources for $ 2.5 million.

They will be linked by three laser beams, forming a triangle of light whose sides are each 3 million miles long.

One is the Siberian Traps, a million - year - long volcanic eruption that flooded five time zones of Russia with basalt lava more than a mile deep.

When complete, the 410 - mile - long reservoir will generate 84.7 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year, the energy equivalent of 50 million tons of coal.

Flying over the ice in a repurposed DC - 3 military airplane, seeing the massive icebergs and the miles - long fractures splitting the surface like frozen lightning bolts, she could not stop thinking about the chaotic terrain hundreds of millions of miles away on Europa.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

In recent decades, people have come to recognize the many benefits of this vast sheet of wetlands, 100 miles long and 40 miles wide, which provides water to 7 million people.

Hyakutake had a 360 - million - mile - long tail — the longest of any comet.

Only with help of our effective dating services, you can find the point of contacts with friends and lovers at a distance of millions miles a long before lasting relationships or physical connections will arise.

The $ 150 - $ 175 million Segment K project, which relies on $ 42 million in federal funding, completes a missing link on this section of interstate, and is part of a 30 - mile - long project that the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LADOTD) has spent eight years developing.

And, in fact, this 100 - mile - long, narrow wrinkle of 65 - million - year - old ridges and buttes only became a national park in 1971.

To ensure durability, the Ram development team is putting the 2019 Ram 1500 to the test — thousands of checks and almost six million customer equivalent testing miles — to validate its performance and reliability for the long haul.

Our million - mile warranty, which is the most comprehensive of any exhaust supplier, means Borla will stand behind your performance exhaust product longer than you will be driving your car and that's a commitment you can depend on.

April 7, 2016 — There are more than four million miles of roads in the United States *, but next week, a 1.968 mile temporary race circuit through the streets of downtown Long Beach will be the focus of the racing world and a valuable test road for Michelin engineers.

If you're a hacker who's been making a long list of United's website bugs, there's never been an easier way to earn (up to) a million miles.

After his tour of duty, John became a long - distance truck driver and during the course of this 20 - year career, logged over three million miles traversing the United States.

Commanding the premier locale in all of Baja California, One & Only Palmilla is situated on land that enjoys a rich and storied history dating back millions of years, when volcanic movement and earthquakes split a 1,100 - mile - long finger of land off mainland Mexico.

But by sticking with the same card long - term, millions of people could be missing out on features of newer cards, such as lower interest rates and more generous rewards including travel perks, airline miles and cash back.

All feature a private lanai (balcony) with fabulous million dollar views of the mile - long sandy beach of Keawakapu and the sparkling blue Pacific, 814 square feet.

All feature private lanai (balcony) with fabulous million dollars views of the mile - long sandy beach of Keawakapu and sparking blue Pacific, air conditioning, drop ceiling with recess lighting, stone counter tops in kitchens and most have converted to shower stalls.

There's a reason why millions of people travel to Indonesia every single year; the postcard worthy moments are all around you and it's also the place where the world's best surfers travel to catch the waves of their life, with high cliffs and mile long beaches in the background.

Approximately ten miles long and 3,000 feet deep, Waimea (which is Hawaiian for «reddish water») was formed millions of years ago by erosion from the Waimea River, along with massive amounts of rainfall.

However, 4 % -5 % cash back cards can go a long way towards paying for the very real time that collecting millions of miles takes.

Still, if you're swimming in millions of points and miles and you'd rather redeem for a once - in - a-lifetime experience than yet another long - haul flight or five - star hotel stay, these auction programs can be a good bet.

Beneath the shadow of Diamond Head, the 2 - mile - long beach here welcomes more than 4 million visitors each year.

If you're a hacker who's been making a long list of United's website bugs, there's never been an easier way to earn (up to) a million miles.

Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing - rod.

Pouring millions of gallons of oil and dispersants into an area already greatly stressed by upstream pollution, atmospheric fall - out, fifty years of industrial activity (44,000 wells, 33,000 miles of pipelines), shoreline trauma, and ecosystem damage by decades of large - scale fishing is a recipe for short and long - term disaster.

As EMBARQ, the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport, we worked with the former government of Mexico City to develop the 12 mile long Bus Rapid Transit System «Metrobus» on Avenida Insurgentes now carrying over 250 000 people / day for a cost of well under $ 100 million (see / / www.embarq.wri.org).

Therefore... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long... seven hundred and forty - two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three - quarters long.

The state's revenue ministry hired Koliwad, a Bangalore - based climate modification consultancy, to carry out a three - month - long, $ 4.5 million cloud seeding program covering a 100 - square - mile area in what is the largest project of its kind ever attempted in the country.

The authors present the image of a coal train that stretches 55,000 miles, long enough to circle the globe twice, carrying 314 million metric tons of carbon - the amount of CO2 emitted by U.S. cars and trucks in the year 2004.

If we attempted to bring the Arctic back to long - term average levels of «ice,» we would need to add approximately 2.6 million square kilometers (1 million square miles) of foam to the Arctic Ocean.

Tens of millions of Americans travel over the long Thanksgiving weekend to spend time with family and friends — nearly 51 million are expected to travel 50 or miles from home this year, AAA estimates.

«Some young people are disillusioned by the reality of working in a law firm — long hours, relatively low pay at the beginning compared to their banker buddies, and being made to do the most mundane tasks, all of which are a million miles away from what is portrayed in US law firm soaps.