Blue Marble, 1972 The original «Blue Marble» was taken on Dec. by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance
of about kilometres mi).
It then is carried by currents to the middle of the North Atlantic, where it swims down to a depth
of about a kilometre.
Not exact matches
With a sturdy, adjustable - height tabletop and a range
of 0.6 to 6.5
kilometres per hour, I would soon be typing and talking without worrying
about the «sitting disease» epidemic that's killing North Americans.
He said the cause
of the pipeline release
about 10
kilometres northeast
of Zama City is under investigation.
Statoil says it is evaluating a new discovery
of high - quality oil
about 500
kilometres northeast
of St. John's, N.L..
At the Svartedalen retirement home in Gothenburg,
about 460
kilometres southwest
of Falun, managers report that the standard
of care has improved since the trial reset the staff's work - life balance earlier this year.
It accelerates like a 911 (zero to 100
kilometres per hour in 4.4 seconds, top speed a limited 250 km / h) but sips fuel at an average
of just 4.8 litres per 100 km (
about the same as a Prius).
The trains are expected start operating in early 2019 with speeds
of 250
kilometres (155 miles) an hour, and a fare
of about $ 16 for a journey
of about 40 minutes.
About 130
kilometres to the north
of the reserve, multinational miner Cliffs Natural Resources wants to develop a huge chromite mine to make a key ingredient in stainless steel.
Will Gibson, a spokesman for Syncrude, which has a plant
about 35
kilometres north
of town, was himself one
of the evacuees heading north away from the flames.
The provincial government says a dozen cars carrying potash jumped the tracks
about 10
kilometres west
of Swift Current on Tuesday night.
Kinder Morgan's 1,000 -
kilometre expansion project has become a national rallying cry for environmentalists, sparked protests from Indigenous communities, caused a trade war between two provinces and brought
about the arrest
of a federal party leader.
It is located
about 120
kilometres north - east
of Halls Creek, WA.
Of that, only
about 750 square
kilometres has been disturbed by mining to date.
That's clearly false — only a small area
of the oil sands deposit —
about 4,750 square
kilometres, or 3 times the land area
of Los Angeles — is mineable, with the remainder accessible only with in situ extraction or, in some cases, not recoverable at all with current technology.
RCMP say Mattheo Moore - Spence, Terrence Spence and Keethan Lobster, all between 11 and 13, were walking and riding bikes on Saturday night when they were hit on a road near Nelson House,
about 850
kilometres north
of Winnipeg.
But it was getting paired with mentor Sue Kuethe that proved to be the key to connecting a passion for renewables with a practical application in Peavine Settlement,
about 60
kilometres north
of High Prairie in Peace Country.
Liberal government pledges to reduce to $ 3 the fares for all GO Transit trips that are either less than 10
kilometres or are taken within the city
of Toronto, and wants to being talks
about the province taking ownership
of the subway.
Highlights include 1.84 g / t gold, 0.85 g / t silver and 0.2 % copper over 71 metres (including 3.61 g / t gold, 1.54 g / t silver and 0.06 % copper over 36 metres) 0.93 g / t gold, 2.02 g / t silver and 0.08 % copper over 94 metres (including 1.58 g / t gold, 0.56 g / t silver and 0.01 % copper over 27 metres) 6.48 g / t gold, 2.05 g / t silver and 0.06 % copper over 13 metres 2.09 g / t gold, 0.66 g / t silver and 0.18 % copper over 27 metres Cerro Quema is located
about 45
kilometres from the city
of Chitre and
about 190
kilometres from Panama City.
Lexington's rehab coincides with that
of the Greenwood plant,
about 17
kilometres away.
Depart the pier for the scenic, approximately 1.5 - hour drive to Punta Ninfas, located approximately 45 miles (
about 73
kilometres) southwest
of Puerto Madryn.
He said: «Along that two and a half hour drive there were people lined up the whole way except for
about 10
kilometres - otherwise it was people sitting on the side
of the road, sometimes with large, vast numbers
of people sitting there.
The outbreak was detected in late October at the Langfield Pastoral Company,
about 27
kilometres north - east
of Young in south - west NSW.
By Louise FitzRoy At Mulloon Creek Natural Farms,
about 50
kilometres east
of Canberra, the hens are roaming freely on green biodynamic pastures and the cattle are being trained to eat weeds.
According to confidential marketing documents viewed by The Australian Financial Review, the assets to be acquired include two farms near Coominya
about 60
kilometres northwest
of Brisbane, Queensland, which produce
about 3 million birds a year with contracts secured to Baiada until 2020.
It was built in 1910
about 18
kilometres north
of Cochrane, Alberta, by Mr. and Mrs. James Andison...
The Kadavu Group, Fiji's fourth - largest island lies
about 100
kilometres south
of Viti Levu.
About 83 square
kilometres of wrapping paper will be chucked out or burned in the UK at Christmas time, which is enough to gift wrap the island
of Jersey.
The fresh round
of violence is said to have erupted between farmers and herders, leaving many other people injured in Kajuru which is
about 50
kilometres from Kaduna, the state capital.
Grasslands mixed with south coastal shrublands and forests dominate Ghana, with forest extending northward from the south - west coast
of Ghana on the Gulf
of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean 320
kilometres (200 miles) and eastward for a maximum
of about 270
kilometres (170 miles) with the Kingdom
of Ashanti or the southern part
of Ghana being a primary location for mining
of industrial minerals and timber.
The plane went down at N'sele,
about 100
kilometres (60 miles) east
of Kinshasa, capital
of the Democratic Republic
of Congo (DRC), the source said.
Earlier I quoted from Michael Gove's statement
about why he was in favour
of leaving the EU, and his claim that EU rules dictate «the distance houses have to be from heathland to prevent cats chasing birds (five
kilometres) ``.
According to News Agency
of Nigeria, NAN, details
of the project indicate the development
of a sugar cane plantation
of about 16,000 hectares or 160
kilometre square, longer than Lagos to Ibadan expressway which is estimated between 120
kilometres and 130 kilometers — more than 30
kilometres shorter than the proposed sugar plantation.
Some people mistakenly think this is what Liechtenstein - a tiny 25
kilometre long microstate with a population
of 37,000 - uses to block free movement, but in actual fact they have a separate treaty provision which they negotiated at the time
of their ascension to the EEA and which is anyway mostly
about refugees.
Covering
about 70,000 square
kilometres, the Niger Delta region is home to one
of the largest wetlands in the world and Africa's largest delta.
There has also been «microscopic» progress in efforts to get ten per cent
of new cars emitting under 100g per
kilometre by 2012 - this would be the equivalent
of about 250,000 cars, but in 2004 just 481 cars fit into this category.
He explained that the N1bn listed in the 2017 budget was for the bridge and the construction
of the road which is
about 28
kilometres from Osogbo to Ilajue, which is the boundary with Oyo State.
And being a pastor at the Charismatic Renewal Ministry, the choice
of the church to host the union fell on the branch
of the ministry at Daudu,
about 20
kilometres from Makurdi, the capital
of Benue State.
JESUSEGUN ALAGBE reports
about Ife - Odan, a community in Ejigbo Local Government Area
of Osun State, where a number
of pregnant women have lost their lives while travelling several
kilometres on motorcycles to access medical care and give birth to their babies Around 11 am on one windy day in February in Ife - Odan, Osun State, Olusola Adeniran -LSB-...]
The UAV was on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) mission when it came across the gathering
of BHTs at Garin Moloma,
about one
kilometre north
of the Sambisa Forest.
«This morning, the Assembly man in Diaso electoral area reported at the station that around 6.15, he had a message that a male adult aged
about 46, had been found dead at the outskirts
of Modaso, another village
about 6
kilometres from Diaso so the Police went to the place.
Dust appears to lie in a belt that extends a few hundred million
kilometres from Proxima Centauri and has a total mass
of about one hundredth
of the Earth's mass.
That fits with analysis
of sea - floor sediments, which suggests that a dead zone
of around 600 square
kilometres formed here
about 40,000 years ago.
About 30
kilometres west
of Zurich, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) makes up the third in the suite
of three government - funded research centres.
«The simulations showed that the only way to account for the proven increase in volcanic activity was that the level (and thus the weight)
of the Mediterranean Sea dropped by
about two
kilometres,» explains Sternai, before adding: «I leave it to you to imagine what the landscape looked like.»
Now Martin Jutzi and Erik Asphaug at the University
of California, Santa Cruz, have simulated the effect
of an impact between the moon and a smaller sibling 1300
kilometres across,
about one - third as wide (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature10289).
Estimated changes in the mass
of Greenland's ice sheet suggest it is melting at a rate
of about 239 cubic
kilometres (57.3 cubic miles) per year.
About 100,000 cubic
kilometres of material had to be removed to form the scar, which is five times the width and depth
of the Grand Canyon.
US farmers grow
about 700,000 square
kilometres of GM crops; Europe maintains something close to prohibition.
Hussein is the resident bird guide at the Azraq Wetland Reserve, a tiny oasis in the Jordanian desert
about 100
kilometres east
of the capital Amman.