Sentences with phrase «millions of miles through»

June 14, 2017 - In a few years, an instrument designed and built by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers will be flying hundreds of millions of miles through space to explore a rare, largely metal asteroid.

After traveling millions of miles through the solar system, the comet is on track to pass within just 730,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) of the sun during its Thanksgiving Day flyby.

Not exact matches

Those on the MegaDo trip have a lifetime average of 1.6 million miles — earned through flying and credit cards — with American alone.

Oncor delivers power to more than 3.4 million homes and businesses through roughly 122,000 miles (196,000 km) of transmission and distribution lines.

In a blog post on Medium Friday, chief technology officer Chris Urmson announced that effective immediately he was leaving the team after shepherding Google's pioneering effort through seven years and 1.8 million miles of road testing.

We somehow feel that what we can see with our own eyes is true, even when what we are seeing is mediated through the lens of a camera, thousands of transistors, miles of wire, and millions of phosphors projected on the back of a picture tube.

But as you go through life, these tiny miracles add up, like little grains of sand, until many years from now, you have millions and billions of grains of sand, and you look back at your life, and see miles and miles of gleaming white beach.

«a day in the life» is the rambling monologue of a housewife (not a million miles from myself;) juggling with household chores and sorting out the kids, answering the phone while cooking dinner and worrying about the economy — but at the end of the day when the jobs are done, you can escape from everyday worries by going for a run, a bike ride or for a swim — where you're alone to think stuff through or think of nothing at all — and certainly not about the phonebill or the mountain of ironing that needs doing.

General Electric removed 2.65 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment from a 40 - mile stretch of the upper Hudson through 2015.

The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, through their firm Mohawk Networks, recently completed a $ 15 million broadband project that laid 68 miles of fiber to serve Akwesasne residents.

The $ 2.75 million project will link more than 36 miles of recreational trailways through Westchester County, from Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx to the Putnam County border.

By then the shuttle was already traveling about 1,000 miles per hour and had burned through more than a million and a half pounds of fuel.

Slide Show: Space Weather On March 10, 1989, a CME about the size of 36 Earths erupted from the sun's roiling surface and ripped through space at a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile - high buildings.

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.

Over the past 130 years, astronomers have witnessed five similar events on the ringed planet, but the 2011 storm was the first seen through the lens of a satellite: NASA's Cassini probe, orbiting 1.2 million miles away.

The United States now tracks more than 10,000 pieces of debris four inches wide or larger, but tens of millions of smaller fragments are also whizzing through space at speeds that can exceed 17,000 miles per hour, says Mark Matney of NASA's Orbital Debris Program.

After a flight of 10 months and 422 million miles, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander last May executed a flawless seven - minute descent through the Red Planet's thin atmosphere to touch down north of its arctic circle.

It also is hoped the probe will help astrophysicists find out why there's no organized solar wind (made up mostly ions and electrons) found in the vicinity of the sun's surface, even though it whips through the solar system at speeds ranging from about 670,000 to 1.8 million miles (1.1 million to 2.9 million kilometers) per hour.

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.

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

But the truth is that you are alive because of brilliant biochemistry, and as you go about living your life, 60,000 miles of blood vessels run through you, and your body is producing 25 million new cells each second.

Engineers logged nearly 6 million miles of customer equivalent driving and experience on the vehicle, including trailer - towing tests in the Rocky Mountains, air conditioning validation in the summer heat of the Florida Keys, punishing drives through Death Valley at more than 120 degrees F. and a -43 degrees F. stint in Manitoba, Canada.

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.

Millions of us are members of at least one frequent flyer program and we earn our miles through our credit cards or by flying.

Good news for the SP, because in his millions of steps and countless miles that he trods through the years, Desert Charlie comes upon many potential rail accidents.

If you're responsible with your spending and organized, it's possible to get millions of airline miles through credit card signup bonuses.

Alex has since earned millions of travel points and miles, mainly through maximizing credit card sign - up bonuses and taking every opportunity to earn the most points possible on each dollar spent.

«Through our partnership with South African Airways — our 41st airline partner — our 54 million members will have the freedom to enjoy the benefits of loyalty in ways that are most meaningful to them — whether earning miles during their stays, or using points to get the miles they need to travel even sooner.»

I earn around a million miles a year through credit cards, about half of which come strictly from the sign - up bonuses earned by being approved for a credit card and completing a minimal amount of spend.

My wife and I currently have over 1 million airline miles in our various accounts, almost all of which were earned through credit card signup bonuses and practically none of them earned by actually flying.

Boston Water and Sewer Commission has relayed or relined over 300 miles of aging pipes, reducing the amount of water being lost through system leaks by 50 million gallons per day.

Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile - high buildings.

The 1,700 - mile pipeline would pass through five states including Montana and cross through thousands of rivers that supply drinking water for millions of people.

Washington's working forests protect 60,000 miles of streams on 9.3 million acres of forestland, protecting cool, clean water through responsible forest practices.

I wish I could find the posting here where I went through the back - of - envelope energy flux calcs (justifying why I am a lukewarmer either to RKS or Dung) and came up with a climate sensitivity not a million miles away from this figure:)

Upon its completion, the Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline would stretch 1,090 miles and transport 1 million barrels of crude oil a day from the Caspian Sea port of Baku in Azerbaijan through Georgia to Ceyhan on the Turkish Mediterranean coast.

From sourcing waste biomass through sterilizing the substrate to inoculating it with mycelium, the process of growing shrooms on this scale is not a million miles different from the process that DIYers would follow.

For those who slept through Chinese geography (read: most of us in the developed world) Inner Mongolia is a 470 million square mile area, 12 % of China's total landmass, that forms the better part of China's border with the country of Mongolia itself.