Sentences with phrase «of kilometers per hour»

You can definitely admire the care that has gone into its creation, even while zipping through tunnels and driving through dirt tracks at hundreds of kilometers per hour.

Four to six tracks would run up the outside of the tower and cable, carrying electromagnetic vehicles at speeds reaching thousands of kilometers per hour to platforms at various levels.

Spacecraft screaming along at many thousands of kilometers per hour have to hit the brakes hard, firing retrorockets to swing into orbit.

Not exact matches

It can hit about 174 mph (280 kilometers per hour), which is on par with some of the quickest small passenger aircrafts.

The missile is claimed to have a maximum speed of 11,200 kilometers per hour (about 7,000 mph or Mach 10), and is also said to be highly maneuverable.

The test result of the electric car suggests that the vehicle consumed 444 watt hours of energy per kilometer.

They are not quite there yet, but the company claims that they achieved a test speed record «of nearly 387 kilometers per hour» (240 miles per hour, 107 meters per second) at their full - scale test track in Nevada.

They fly at an average speed of 36 kilometers or 22 miles per hour.

Whether it's reported in knots, miles or kilometers per hour, we can measure the wind as it is happening and whether or not it is windy at any given location and time is not as questionable as the existence of an all - powerful creator.

A Galapagos Racer Snake can move seven kilometers per hour, and is roughly 1 / 8th the total size of a wide receiver.

Arjan Robben tore Spain's defense apart during 2014 world cup group game where Holland beat Spain by 5 - 1, he reached top speed of 37 kilometer per hour when he sprint pass Ramos and Jordi Alba to score his second and Holland's fifth of the day.

They will climb to 15 kilometers in the stratosphere and fly in the path of the total solar eclipse over Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee at 750 kilometers per hour.

That's evidence that the relatively slow movement of the debris (2 - 4 kilometers per hour) helped species adapt to changing conditions across the Pacific Ocean, the team wrote.

Humans and cheetahs are a case in point: Although the two humans included in the team's study weighed in at 70 kilograms and had an average top speed of about 41 kilometers per hour, the heftiest cheetah weighed about 5 kilograms less but ran nearly three times as fast.

The finding, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on an analysis of 506 race - ending crashes in Formula One — a class of racing featuring single - seater, open wheeled cars and speeds in excess of 350 kilometers per hour — between 1970 and 2014.

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.

Measurements of a Tyrannosaur's fossilized footprint help researchers estimate that the ancient beast was at the time walking between 4.5 and 8 kilometers per hour (2.8 to 5 miles per hour).

One previous study of a single footprint of a large tyrannosaur suggests that the beast could have been traveling as fast as 11 kilometers per hour (6.8 miles per hour), says Eric Snively, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Such a voyage is a straight shot westward and would take about 3 weeks of daytime sailing at typical Viking ship speeds (which, for the uninformed, is about 11 kilometers per hour).

Then, they measured the distance between the footprints and used an equation based on observations of living, walking bipeds to estimate the dinosaur's walking speed, yielding a result between 4.5 and 8 kilometers per hour (2.8 to 5 miles per hour), they report online this month and in a forthcoming print issue of Cretaceous Research.

The solar wind is a stream of electrically conducting gas continuously blowing from the Sun's surface into space at about one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

The analysis, reported in the 10 August issue of the Astrophysical Journal, showed that cool, denser gas inside the spot sank into the sun at about 5000 kilometers per hour.

Outside, in exposed parts of the city, winds were gusting at up to 160 kilometers per hour as the storm made landfall.

Near the end of its life, a huge star blasts much of its bloated outer atmosphere into space — a torrent of gas equal to Earth's mass each year, racing outward at 10 million kilometers per hour.

Based on the wavelengths of spectral lines emitted by the luminous gas surrounding the black hole, the object is traveling at a speed of about 7.5 million kilometers per hour — a rate that would carry it from Earth to the moon in about 3 minutes.

As a result of the flyby, the velocity change to the spacecraft was 8,451 miles per hour (3.778 kilometers per second).

During those deep dives, the probe will fly just 5,000 kilometers above the cloud tops and gravity will accelerate it to roughly a quarter of a million kilometers per hour, setting a new spacecraft speed record.

The burst occurred when a giant cloud of plasma ejected from the solar corona, and moving with a speed of about 2.5 million kilometers per hour struck our planet, causing a severe compression of Earth's magnetosphere from 11 to 4 times the radius of Earth.

The bands are separated by winds that can reach speeds of up to 400 miles (644 kilometers) per hour.

Akatsuki's 2 - year mission aims to peel away some of the mystery of Venus's dense, cloudy atmosphere, which sweeps over the planet at speeds exceeding 300 kilometers per hour, or 60 times faster than Venus itself rotates.

With sustained winds of 140 kilometers per hour, the cyclone flooded the southern Malay peninsula and damaged two U.S. naval ships.

But how do the birds track these familiar sites hundreds of meters below as they zip by at 65 kilometers per hour?

It involved shear faulting with a fast rupture velocity of about 4 kilometers per second (about 9,000 miles per hour), more like a conventional earthquake near the surface than other deep earthquakes.

On October 12, 1979, Typhoon Tip generated peak wind speeds of 300 kilometers per hour.

Dispersal and movement First and foremost, according to scientists, hurricane - force winds in excess of 119 kilometers per hour further mix and disperse the oil itself.

Sometimes the team released gas traveling a leisurely average walking speed of a few kilometers per hour; other times, they let the gas flow 100 times faster.

Other states, including Florida and Texas, are proposing to build dedicated high - speed rails from scratch that would allow trains to reach top speeds of about 240 kilometers per hour.

With trains allowed to run in excess of 320 kilometers per hour on some stretches, state officials estimate a trip between Los Angeles and San Francisco could take as little as two and a half hours.

Over the last decade, the solar plasma around Voyager 1 has thinned as the spacecraft hurtles toward the edge of the bubble at more than 60,000 kilometers per hour.

And the flows can travel at incredibly high speeds down the sides of a volcano; an estimate of the average speed of the pyroclastic flow down the slopes of Mount Saint Helens in Washington State during its 1980 eruption (also Plinian) was around 230 kilometers per hour.

The machine forms two smoke rings of plasma, one near each end, by a proprietary process and fires them toward the middle at nearly a million kilometers per hour.

Bolt's top speed of 37.6 kilometers per hour (23.4 miles per hour) is impressive for us humble humans.

Wind velocities of three to 15 kilometers per hour will produce water waves having periods up to three seconds.

His team calculated that the forces that fractured Lucy's upper arm were equal to a fall from a height of about 13.7 meters — as high as a four - story building or the top of a tall tree, such as a mature acacia tree — at a velocity of about 59 kilometers per hour.

If Curiosity survives its «Seven Minutes of Terror,» slowing from 21,240 kilometers per hour to a dead stop on the surface, it will demonstrate a brand new and downright scary - looking system for delivering heavy loads precisely where scientists want them.

Assuming oil needs to be at least 1 micrometer thick to create a visible sheen, he explains, and assuming that an oil slick that thin has a 72 - hour lifespan at the surface, a leak of 14 gallons per day could only create a visible sheen 1.6 kilometers long by 91 meters wide.

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.

The mandibles of the trap - jaw ant Odontomachus brunneus can whip shut at speeds over 40 meters per second (144 kilometers per hour), instantaneously maiming a prey insect or enemy ant.

Gas from the comet is likely to have hit Mars, and would have done so at a speed of 125,000 miles per hour (56 kilometers per second).

During its dive, Cassini swooped to within 3,000 kilometers of the planet's atmosphere and 300 kilometers of the innermost edge of the rings at 124,000 kilometers per hour.