Sentences with phrase «several millions of miles»

As to speed, they can go as fast as several millions of miles a minute.

Not exact matches

And when you're tasked with building and launching spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from Earth, on missions that take several years, long - term planning is pretty critical.

Roughly 4 million acres of land and several million square miles of ocean.

According to Jeans its diameter is about 200,000 light - years and it takes 3 million years to complete a single revolution, at a peripheral speed of several hundred miles per second.

Several years laterLorillard spent the balance of $ 2 million building a golf course, a racetrackand a mile - long toboggan slide lit by electricity.

According to guidelines based on several years — and $ 10 million — of environmental - impact research, the Navy is not permitted to use the low - frequency sonar within 12 nautical miles of any coastline, in any marine sanctuary, near any marine - mammal «biologically important area,» or in polar seas.

Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice.

In all those places physicists have built novel observatories costing hundreds of millions of dollars each, with arms extending several miles in perpendicular directions.

The new observations were made with several instruments on SOHO, which is stationed about 900,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) sunward of the Earth in interplanetary space, where it has an uninterrupted view of the Sun and of the solar wind particles blown from the Sun.

The corona is the final layer of the sun and extends several million miles or kilometers outward from the other spheres.

He's earned several million miles during his past five years of travel hacking, and has a balance of more than 1.5 million miles across several different accounts.

The ONLY downside I see to this is the 450,000 miles do not count towards lifetime million miler, oh, and it took several hours of spread sheet work to figure out the least expensive way to accomplish these transfers and end up with the majority of the bonus points in my GOLD MEDALLION account.

At first I thought it was going to be several millions of Hawaiian Airline miles but there was MORE!

If you want to understand climate, go out and map several square miles of the crust, log ten miles of core, then figure out a hundred million years of earth history 10Ka at a time.

This financial assistance has helped protect more than 35 million acres of land, stop or remove 26 dams, and preserve access to thousands of miles of rivers and several climbing areas.