Sentences with phrase «only about a kilometer»

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The $ 85 million Chabahar project, located only about 350 kilometers from Gwadar, is aimed at creating a transit route between India, Iran and Afghanistan.

The planet sits about 9.6 million kilometers from its star, which has only 8 percent of the mass of the sun.

It forms only at pressures greater than about 24 gigapascals — corresponding to depths between 610 and 800 kilometers, researchers report March 8 in Science.

NASA caught a glimpse of Kuwaits Greater Burgan field in southeastern Kuwait: Situated about 40 kilometers south of Kuwait City, the Greater Burgan field is thought to hold nearly a tenth of the worlds proven oil reserves and second only to Saudi Arabias Ghawar field (about 500 km to the south).

Further certainty about the source of that particular FRB, if it ever comes at all, is likely to only emerge through more detailed follow - up studies using other facilities, such as the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico or the yet - to - be-built Square Kilometer Array in Australia and South Africa.

For the most part, today's subducting slabs can only sink so far, to about 670 kilometers below the surface, before the mantle's makeup turns from a honey - like consistency, to that of paste — too dense for most slabs to penetrate further.

Over a span of hundreds of thousands of kilometers, their vertical thickness typically varies by only about 10 meters.

The new, high - resolution map of the mantle — the hot rock below Earth's crust but above the planet's iron core — not only shows these connections for many hotspots on the planet, but reveals that below about 1,000 kilometers the plumes are between 600 and 1,000 kilometers across, up to five times wider than geophysicists thought.

Unfortunately, air power will accelerate you only to about 55 kilometers per hour.

The scientists generated the enormous dataset by running NCAR's Weather Research and Forecasting model at an extremely high resolution of about 4 kilometers (about 2.5 miles), across the entire contiguous U.S. Typical climate models only resolve to about 100 kilometers (about 62 miles)-- not nearly the detail available in the new dataset.

The planet's orbit measures about 600,000 kilometers across, only 50 % more than the average distance from Earth to the moon.

The current climate is influenced by processes that go far back into the history of Earth: the Greenland lithosphere is 2.8 to 1.7 billion years old and is only about 70 to 80 kilometers thick under Central Greenland.

Even though the tiny island chain is only about 10 kilometers across, researchers hadn't realized the extent of the penguin population, says study coauthor Heather Lynch, an ecologist at Stony Brook University in New York.

Stanley Ambrose of the University of Illinois believes that the Toba eruption, which spewed up to 3,000 cubic kilometers of material, caused so much death that only about 10,000 adult humans survived, and that all modern humans descend from that tiny population.

Unlike battery - powered electric vehicles, fuel - cell powered ones have a long cruising range — up to 650 kilometers per tank (the fuel is usually compressed hydrogen gas); a hydrogen fuel refill only takes about three minutes.

The comet is relatively close to us — it was only about 143 million miles (230 million kilometers) from Earth when this picture was taken.

In August 2009, the orbiting Cassini spacecraft caught sight of 20 - meter - high corrugations rippling across 1500 kilometers of Saturn's inner C ring (regular, narrow bright bands, above), which is only about 10 meters thick.

On Friday, the moon's penumbral, or outer, shadow will brush the southern belly of the Earth, initially touching down in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) a southwest of Cape Town, but only managing to encompass the southern and western portion of South Africa, completely missing Lesotho and barely grazing the border of Namibia.

The grizzlies now roam over 65,000 square kilometers (25,000 square miles) of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, with only about a fifth of the population inside the national park at its core.

He touched down about 11 kilometers below the Pacific Ocean surface at the Challenger Deep site, a spot previously visited by only a handful of robotic subs.

Pimm's team found that only about 100 square kilometers meet the bird's habitat requirement.

For an object of 2.5 million solar masses, its Schwarzschild radius — or outer edge of the «gravity well» from which not even light itself can escape from the black hole's pull — would be only about 7.5 million kilometers.

«While Earth will be only about a pixel in size from Cassini's vantage point 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away, the team is looking forward to giving the world a chance to see what their home looks like from Saturn,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, in Pasadena, Calif..

This separating ice is now only about 20 kilometers from Larsen C's edge.

Provisionally designated S / 2005 P1 and S / 2005 P2, the two potential new moons are seen orbiting in a counterclockwise direction about 44,000 kilometers (27,000 miles) from Pluto in these deep Hubble images recorded only three days apart.

Astronomical observations, however, now indicate that the Solar System has around 400 billion comets of a mile or two (two to three kilometers) in diameter, but the» «domestic model» of comet formation can account for a population of only about 6 billion» within Sol's Oort Cloud.

So far astronomers have only been able to account for about 450 to 500 kilometers per second of the Local Group's motion.

The battery - life meter dipped more quickly than we expected, predicting a total range of only about 100 kilometers (60 - ish miles) by the end, versus the promised 150 kilometers, but that reflects several short and aggressive journalist - helmed test drives in cold weather, the last factor being particularly important, since this car lacks the sort of liquid heating elements found in the Volt.

The transfer rate is 1 point for 1 kilometer, but a kilometer is worth only about.62 miles.

Visiting the pyramids can be done effectively in half a day or so, especially since they are located only about 25 kilometers from central Cairo.

The port is only about a mile / kilometer from the historic city center.

The best part about 540 kilometers of trail is that you get to pick and choose the things you'd like to see and do the most if you're only hiking in small sections.

It is only a 12 minute drive from the central palace of Balis cultural centre, Ubud and about 32 kilometers from Ngurah Rai International Airport.

What most people don't realise about the Wild Coast is that it only spreads across 300 kilometers of coastline between Port Edward and Port Elizabeth.

From the boat station (right next to the tourism office of Montreux), you can walk or take the boat — but I seriously recommend walking, as it is only about 3 kilometers and you'll be walking on the promenade, which makes it a great walk.

Only about 177 square kilometers of the entire site have been excavated so far, but the parts that have been are very impressive.

Given that Rajasthan embodies the classic image that fills most people's imagination about India, it's only fitting that one of the country's most popular train journeys, the Palace on Wheels, traverses 3000 kilometers through this colorful desert state.

This melting in 2005 was 900 kilometers inland, only about 500 kilometers from the South Pole.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

In the Antarctic convergence zone there are hard surface temperature breaks from ~ 10C to 4C in only about 300 kilometers.

Moreover, water vapor isn't evenly distributed within the atmosphere — there is only about 1 % above the lowest 6 to 20 kilometers (4 - 12 miles), the layer called the «troposphere.»

The scientists generated the enormous dataset by running NCAR's Weather Research and Forecasting model at an extremely high resolution of about 4 kilometers (about 2.5 miles), across the entire contiguous U.S. Typical climate models only resolve to about 100 kilometers (about 62 miles)- not nearly the detail available in the new dataset.

The cloud coverage in the Arctic is about 60 percent in the winter so only 40 percent of the 15 million square kilometers of sea ice is reflecting the Sun's radiation.

«In June, sea ice lost about 170,000 to 175,000 square kilometers per day, but only for a few days,» NSIDC scientist Walt Meier explained.

Assuming the remainder of North America except for Mesoamerica, habitable and unihabitable, of about 19 million square kilometers supports an average of only the prehistoric paleolithic population density of about 0.01 people per square kilometer, the result is a population of about 1.9 million people.

After all, 14kWh only gives you a range of about 115 kilometers (71 miles), which is mostly fine if you stay in the city according to studies that show that «cars drive an average of 30 - 40 kilometers per day (19 - 25 miles) in towns and cities», but might not be enough on the highway.

In contrast to the polar regions, the network of lower latitude small glaciers and ice caps, although making up only about four percent of the total land ice area or about 760,000 square kilometers, may have provided as much as 60 percent of the total glacier contribution to sea level change since 1990s (Meier et al. 2007).

And although their use as a disaster response has been questioned, they've proven to be a useful resource when a tsunami hit Chile last year and a group of students from a local university was able to re-build a local school in a devastated town in only four weeks.A fishing town of 3,000 people, Tubul is located about 500 kilometers (300 miles) south - west from Santiago, and was one of the areas most affected by the earthquake and tsunami.