Sentences with phrase «of miles per hour»

A wind of fragmented atoms blows off it at millions of miles per hour.

The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.

The air around us is a chaotic superhighway of molecules whizzing through space and constantly colliding with each other at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour.

Turbocharging enhances the driving experience with rapid acceleration of miles per hour and heartbeats per minute — while yielding smile - enhancing fuel economy at the same time.

The futuristic VR racer, developed by Tastee Beverage Studios, promises to break free from the traditional racing genre by providing a thrilling experience of racing at thousands of miles per hour from within the cockpit viewpoint.

If one truck's speed is set a couple of miles per hour more than another, and the driver wants to pass the slower vehicle, it will take some time to get past.

The commission prohibits the calls because of concern that phones on planes flying at hundreds of miles per hour could strain the ability of cellular networks to keep up as the devices keep trying to connect with cellphone towers, interfering with service to users on the ground.

The blue cloud and the white central dot consist of 60 - million - degree gas shooting outward, perpendicular to the lobes, at millions of miles per hour.

Wedemeyer - Böhm estimates that there are at least 11,000 tornadoes roaming the solar surface at any time, each lasting about 10 minutes and hurling gas at tens of thousands of miles per hour.

Either that cord is made of admantium, or it's completely taut, which would indicate that the the blimp is traveling at hundreds of miles per hour.

«When an electron is excited in that way, it's the equivalent of a car that is being pushed from going 10 miles per hour to thousands of miles per hour,» Monti explains.

At the smallest level, air molecules continuously jostle against one another at hundreds of miles per hour, ricocheting like billiard balls.

Hypervelocity stars, and the black holes that launch them, whip through space at millions of miles per hour.

«Instead of coming in at thousands of miles per hour, it was approaching Vesta at only about 60 mph.

The comparatively slow speed indicates that the star expelled its material through a less violent event than Eta Carinae's explosive outbursts, where the gas is travelling hundreds of thousands of miles per hour.

These ejections send energetic charged particles hurtling into space at millions of miles per hour.

«We see some gas outflowing from this galaxy at millions of miles per hour, and this gas may have been blown away by the powerful radiation from the newly formed stars,» said Ryan Hickox, an astrophysicist at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and a co-author on the study.

In 1972, Rand scientist R.M. Salter Jr. proposed a magnetically levitated train to blast through an airless underground tunnel from Los Angeles to New York at thousands of miles per hour.

That debris is what you're seeing when you see a meteor shower: dust - sized particles slamming into the Earth's atmosphere at tens of thousands of miles per hour.

They are just tiny bits of rock, usually smaller than a garden pea, burning up as they crash into Earth's atmosphere at speeds of thousands of miles per hour.

This mass of plasma travels at millions of miles per hour and, upon colliding with a planet's magnetic field, can trigger a geomagnetic storm, during which particles trapped in a planet's atmosphere are released.

JetBlue Wi - Fi works the same way your Wi - Fi connection at home or work does — except thousands of feet above the planet's surface while traveling hundreds of miles per hour.

This first - person platformer (slated for the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift later this year) utilizes a unique motion system that lets you run hundreds of miles per hour, climb up walls and even soar like Superman by using intuitive hand gestures.

You control your car with about as much finesse as a bowling ball or a shopping cart full of Jackasses, blasting through tracks at hundreds of miles per hour.