Sentences with phrase «over a mile wide»

It's a place technically known as the south polar terrain, and astronomers have nicknamed the long, geologically active fractures «Tiger Stripes» — each about 80 miles long and a little over a mile wide.

Poas Volcano is world famous for its two crater lakes, one of which is over a mile wide!

Ambergris is 25 miles long and a little over a mile wide, in some places, and it is located in the clear shallow waters of the Caribbean Sea just off the tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

Over a mile wide and 3,000 feet deep, the canyon is a geological wonder and one of the true gems of Kauai.

Cayman Brac is 12 miles long and just over a mile wide and has the most dramatic topography of the trio.

Ambergris Caye is approximately twenty five miles long and just over a mile wide and is divided into three diverse areas; sand, lagoons, and mangrove swamps.

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The entire storm was over 400 miles wide, which is almost the entire length of Florida and the eye was 25 - 30 miles wide.

Mexico City, with its population of 4,500,000, is a crowded, rambling metropolis that occupies a great part of the Valle Méjico, an open, flat area some 50 miles wide, surrounded by a crown of mountains that extends up to 3,000 feet in the air over the valley floor, itself some 7,500 feet above sea level.

All around us are pockets - vast stretches, too - of deprivation so severe that you can travel blocks, even miles, through Chicago and some suburbs without seeing things that so many of us take for granted: grocery stores, basketball hoops with nets, Starbucks, wide lawns and houses whose windows are not boarded over or shattered.

This generated a dispute over a roughly 2 - mile - wide section of border between northern Westchester and then - Dutchess counties and the Connecticut Colony; it came to be known as «The Oblong».

The site is undecided, but the blueprints call for thousands of dishes — each wider and more powerful than those of the ATA — to be spread over an area more than 1,800 miles wide.

And it is Audubon who in 1833 identified the passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, as the most numerous bird on the continent, highlighting the point by describing a mile - wide flock of migrating pigeons that passed over his head and blocked the sun for three straight days.

They reported rapid advances of the rift in January, May and June, which increased its length to over 200 km and left the iceberg hanging on by a thread of ice just 4.5 km (2.8 miles) wide.

The ex-planet's moons P4 and P5, discovered in 2011 and 2012 and both less than 25 miles wide, are now officially known as Kerberos, after the mythological multiheaded «hellhound» that guards the gates of Hades, and Styx, after the goddess who watches over the underworld river of the same name.

Designers say the 3.7 - mile - wide dam, slated for completion in 2015, would be able to produce over 11,233 MW of energy, ranking it as the third largest in the world.

These satellite images, encompassing an area about 150 miles wide, show a tremendous loss of forest over just 12 years (the forest in 2000 on the left, and the same forest in 2012 to the right).

At 43 pixels wide, the new images are more than 30 percent higher in resolution than those taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 and 2004 at a distance of over 150 million miles (about 241 million kilometers).

Specifically, they suggest that a three - mile - wide comet moving at 135,000 miles an hour blew up over Canada with the force of a million nuclear bombs.

The geographic region that will see a total solar eclipse, known as the path of totality, is 70 miles wide, hitting land westward of Salem, Oregon (just south of Portland) around 10:15 am and moving out over the Atlantic Ocean around 2:50 pm just after passing through Columbia, South Carolina.

The 11 - hour round - trip from Punta Arenas included a series of low - level passes over the massive ice stream which is 20 miles wide and in places more than one mile thick.

«At over 1.4 million kilometers (869,919 miles) wide, the Sun contains 99.86 percent of the mass of the entire solar system: well over a million Earths could fit inside its bulk.

Based upon eight (8) joint Russian / American scientific expeditions into the Arctic under the aegis of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University Alaska Fairbanks, methane fields of a breathtakingly fantastic scale have been discovered with plumes over a half - mile wide spewing methane directly into the atmosphere in concentrations 100 times higher than normal.

Saturn's icy 246 - mile - wide moon Mimas (near lower left) appears tiny by comparison to the planet's rings, but scientists think the all of the small, icy particles spread over a vast area that comprise the rings are no more than a few times as massive as Mimas.

Over 100 of the 574 segmented mirror blanks needed for TMT's 30 - meter - wide primary mirror have already been produced in Japan, with fifty of those transported to a Canon factory in Utsunomiya (about 70 miles outside Tokyo) for surface polishing.

Speaking to the Press Association, Schleicher described the teaching of maths in English schools as «a mile wide and an inch deep» and suggested that the UK tends to over complicate teaching, while top performing East Asian schools will tech fewer topics in more depth to emphasise understanding.

The engineering of this ultramodern car is absolutely unreal: a monocoque built from carbon - fiber - reinforced plastic; a racing - type weight distribution of 43 percent front / 57 percent rear; rear tires that are each over a foot wide; a plug - in hybrid powertrain with electric motors on each axle that delivers 19 miles of range in full - electric mode; a seven - speed PDK transmission; and a 4.6 - liter V - 8 engine that revs to 9150 rpm and makes 608 hp.

21,058 miles Our 135i is definitely sporty enough for most - I keep absentmindedly referring to it as the M3 - and a bit too hard - core for others; the big wheels, with their wide, low - profile tires do tend to crash over the fresh potholes in our freeze - thawed blacktop.

Now, the car has competition docket a mile - wide, with participation history stretching over 25 years.

With 755 horsepower the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette zr1 is the most powerful Corvette ever it's also the most technologically advanced behind me are the rolling s's at Road Atlanta and we're here to see if we can reach to the supercar levels of performance afforded by this thing's massive power big tires and the tall wing on the back after that we'll take to the streets to see if a car this powerful can behave itself in public this is a monster of a car I've had some brief track opportunities moving this morning to get used to the pace of this machine which is phenomenal we're gonna warm up as we get out to the road Atlanta and sort of build up to the pace that this car can operate at now initially when you hop in this car you have this shrine to the engine right above you you see the line of the hood it kind of dominates the center of the view you can see over it it doesn't affect visibility but it's immediately obvious and that kind of speaks to what makes this car special it's a monster of an engine listen to that [Music] that is tremendous tremendous acceleration and incredible power but what I finding so far my brief time here at the Atlanta is that everything else in the car is rut has risen to match hurt me while I lay into it on the back straight look you know 150 mile - an - hour indicated we're going to ease up a little bit on it because I need to focus on talking rather than driving but like I was saying the attributes of the rest of the car the steering the braking capability the grip every system of this car is riding to the same level of the power and I think that's what makes it really impressive initially this is undoubtedly a mega mega fast car but it's one that doesn't terrify you with its performance potential there's a level of electronic sophistication that is unparalleled at this price point but it's hard not to get you know totally slipped away by the power of this engine so that's why I keep coming back to it this car has an electronically controlled limited slip differential it has shocks filled with magnetically responsive fluid that can react faster to inputs and everything this car has a super sophisticated stability control system that teaches you how to drive it quick but also makes you go faster we haven't even gotten into exploring it yet because the limits of this car are so high that frankly it takes a while to grow into it but [Music] I think what's impressive about this car is despite how fast it is it is approachable you can buy this car to track dates with it and grow with it as a driver and as an owner I think that's a really special [Music] because you will never be more talented than this car is fast ever unless you are a racing driver casually grazing under 50 miles an hour on this straight okay I'm just going to enjoy driving this now [Music][Applause][Music] this particular Corvette zr1 comes with the cars track performance package a lot of those changes happen underneath the sheet metal but one of the big differences that is immediately obvious is this giant carbon fiber wing now the way this thing is mounted is actually into the structure of the vehicle and it makes you know loading the rear hatch a bit more difficult but we're assuming that's okay if you're looking for the track performance this thing delivers also giving you that performance are these Michelin Pilot Sport cup tires which are basically track oriented tires that you can drive on the street but as we wake our way to the front of the thing what really matters is what's under the hood that's right there's actually a hole in the hood of this thing and that's because this engine is so tall it's tall because it has a larger supercharger and a bunch of added cooling on it to help it you know keep at the right temperature the supercharger is way larger than the one on the zo six and it has a more cooling capacity and the downside is it's taller so it pops literally through the hood the cool thing is from the top you can actually see this shake when you're looking at it from you know a camera from the top of the vehicle this all makes for 755 horsepower making this the most powerful Corvette ever now what's important about that is this not just the power but likewise everything in the car has to be built to accommodate and be able to drive to the level of speed this thing can develop that's why you had the massive cooling so I had the aerodynamics and that's why I had the electronic sophistication inside [Applause] we had a lot of time to take this car on the track yesterday and I've had the night to think about things Matt today two crews on the road and see how this extreme performance machine deals with the sort of more civil minded stuff of street driving the track impressions remain this thing is unquestionably one of the most capable cars you can get from a dealer these days a lot of that's besides the point now because we're on the street we have speed limits they have the ever - present threat of law enforcement around every corner so the question is what does this car feel like in public when you slow this car down it feels like a more powerful Corvette you don't get much tram lining from these big wheels though we as the front end doesn't want to follow grooves in the pavement it is louder it is a little firmer but it's certainly livable on a day to day basis that's surprising for a vehicle of this capability normally these track oriented cars are so hardcore that you wouldn't want to drive them to the racetrack but let's face it you spend more time driving to the track than you do on the track and the fact that this thing works well in both disciplines is really impressive I can also dial everything back and cruise and not feel like I'm getting punished for driving a hardcore track machine that's a that's a really nice accomplishment that's something that you won't find in cars that are this fast and costs maybe double this much the engine in this car dominates the entire experience you can't miss the engine and the whole friend this car is sort of a shrine to it the way it pops out of the hood the way it's covered with coolers around the sides it is the experience of this car and that does make driving this thing special and also the fact that it doesn't look half bad either in fact I think it has some of the coolest looking wheels currently available on a new car this car as we mentioned this car has the track package the track package on this car gives you what they call competition bucket seats which are a little wide for my tastes but I'm you know not the widest person in the world this automatic transmission works well I mean there's so much torque again out of this engine that it can be very smooth and almost imperceptible its clunky on occasion I think I'd might opt for the manual although Chevy tells me about 80 % of its customers will go for the automatic I don't think they're gonna be disappointed and that's gonna be the faster transmission drag strip on the street - and on the racetrack man it was a little bit more satisfying to my taste though we've talked about the exhaust I have it set in the track setting let's quiet it down a little bit so you can hear the difference now I've set that separately from everything else so let's put it stealth what happened to the engine sound that's pretty that's pretty amazing man stealth is really stealth and then go back to track Wow actually a really big difference that's that's pretty great the Corvette has always been a strong value proposition and nowhere is that more evident than this zr1 giving you a nearly unbeatable track performance per dollar now the nice thing is on the road this doesn't feel like a ragged edge track machine either you could genuinely drive it every day the compromises are few and that's what makes this car so special if you like what you see keep it tuned right here and be sure to visit Edmunds.com [Music]

Standard Fuel Saver Technology and a new - for - 2012 active valve exhaust system allows four - cylinder operation to engage over a wider rpm range, to deliver both improved fuel efficiency — an estimated 13 - percent increase on the highway — and an extended range of approximately 450 miles on one tank of gas.

Over the years, Ostrander's lab has examined a wide range of traits and conditions, from the athletic performance of whippets, who can reach speeds approaching 40 miles per hour, to epilepsy.

With a wide selection of over 270 gift card partners, redemptions begin at 156 miles for a $ 1 card.

Destination - wide recreation has been reinstated as a primary focus, completely restoring such classics to their original intrigue, including indoor and outdoor resort pools, a six - lane bowling alley, extensive fitness center, horseback riding, and over 30 miles of hiking trails.

Just imagine the thundering roar of the 275 waterfalls cascading over a precipice almost two miles wide and 250 feet deep!

The island is twenty - five miles long and ranges from a few hundred feet to over four miles wide.

Curacao is a compact island — about 38 miles long and just over seven miles wide at its widest point — with excellent year - round weather (the average temperature is 81 degrees F) and a multicultural ambience.

Belize also consists of over 200 cayes (islands), ranging in size from a few hundred feet to 25 miles long and four miles wide.

Water sports and walks Lake Titisee lies 2,789 feet (850 metres) above sea level, is more than a mile long long, just over half - a-mile wide and approximately 131 feet (40 metres) deep.

Of course, the main attraction is the emerald lake itself, which is two - and - a-half miles (four kilometres) long and 0.6 miles (over one kilometre) wide.

The canyon, created by the Colorado River over a period of 6 million years, is up to 18 miles wide, and a mile deep.

Agents will be able to redeem miles against a wide selection of more than 2,900 flight and non-flight rewards from over 200 partners.»

At almost 2/3 of a mile long and over 100 feet wide, it is one of the most popular beaches on Maui.

It is just over 5 miles from the Destin Commons Shopping Center and just over 10 miles from HarborWalk Village — the location of a wide variety of festivals and events that occur throughout the year.

Sonoma is 52 miles wide, 47 miles long and spans from the rolling hills of Los Carneros to dramatic cliffs over the Pacific Ocean, amazing redwood forests and peaceful countryside.

At a half a mile wide and nearly 2 - miles long, picturesque Peyto Lake is over 6100 feet above sea level.

Flocks as large as 300 miles long and 1 mile wide would take over the sky, engulfing light from the sun for days in a thundering storm of beating wings and dung like «melting flakes of snow,» according to John James Audubon.

Two years ago this month, an edge - pushing environmental entrepreneur and a company formed by a Native Canadian village set off a wave of international protest by dispersing a pink slurry of 100 tons of iron - rich dust over one of the 60 - mile - wide ocean eddies that routinely drift across the salmon feeding grounds of the Gulf of Alaska.

A string of twisters has ravaged the middle of the country over the past several days, culminating in a two - mile - wide tornado tearing up Moore, Okla., Monday afternoon.

Frankly that compares poorly with a flood well over 6 miles wide (and much wider in the Sindh), deep enough to flow through third story windows of a hotel on the river bank (in one location) and which is still ongoing a month and a half after the initial flooding.

NASA's Terra satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Pam as it continued intensifying in the Southern Pacific Ocean and captured an image of the storm's 20 nautical mile - wide, cloud - filled eye.