Sentences with phrase «point about a kilometer»

There was no dock at Yeji, just another beach landing, this one on a point about a kilometer from the town.

Not exact matches

The distance between Stockholm and Helsinki is about 300 miles, and doing the math, the figure points to about $ 36.7 million cost per kilometer or about $ 64 million for every mile.

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 telescope will eventually make its way to the sun - Earth Lagrange point 2, a gravitationally stable spot about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from our planet.

«The amount of water Los Angeles uses over one year is about one cubic kilometer,» Rignot points out.

The levels are highest from two points northeast of the plant, ranging from 8690 becquerels / kilogram to a high of 163,000 Bq / kg measured on 20 March from a point in Iitate about 40 kilometers northwest of the Fukushima plant.

Its closest point to Earth (67,000 miles or 108,000 kilometers) is about triple the distance of geosynchronous orbit, where most communications satellites operate.

«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..

The tests at Ames simulate a mission in which astronauts parked at Earth - moon Lagrange point 2 — a gravitationally stable spot located about 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) above the moon's surface — operate a rover on the lunar farside.

The transition of the sub-solar point to the anti-solar point takes place at altitudes of about 100 kilometers.

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

Lava tubes can also be extremely long; one tube from the Mauna Loa 1859 flow enters the ocean about 50 kilometers (31 mi) from its eruption point, and the Cueva del Viento — Sobrado system on Teide, Tenerife island, is over 18 kilometers (11 mi) long, due to extensive braided maze areas at the upper zones of the system.

The Coal Oil Point seep field (COP) in the Santa Barbara Channel offshore from Goleta, California, is a marine petroleum seep area of about three square kilometres, within the Offshore South Ellwood Oil Field and stretching from the coastline southward more than three kilometers (1.9 mi).

The Unawatuna Bay Surf Point is situated about five kilometers from Galle and offers fantastic surfing between November and April.

Located just north of Puerto Caldera, about 100 kilometers from San Jose, Boca Barranca is a left point break with world class waves.

I am sure about the output in cubic kilometers from the glaciers and I am sure I am wrong as you point out with the Sverdrup calculation, haste made waste in this case.

In the Arctic, for example, data collected by Europe's Cryosat spacecraft pointed to about 9,000 cubic kilometers of ice at the end of the 2013 melt season.