Sentences with phrase «square kilometres when»

The particle shower can have a «footprint» as large as 40 square kilometres when it hits the ground.

Not exact matches

With some luck (and money), the ATA will continue its search for extraterrestrial civilizations at least through 2016, when there will be a new, much bigger kid on the block: the $ 2.1 billion Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, a collaboration among 70 organizations in 20 countries.

Some see this pilot project as the first step towards turning hundreds of square kilometres of parched coastal desert into fertile farms (See «When desert meets sea «-RRB-.

But when land subsidence is also taken into account, the area vulnerable to flooding during high tides and storm surges rises to between 130 and 430 square kilometres.

When this article was first published on 24 November 2013, the daily amount of methane released per square kilometre was given as tonnes, when it should have been kilogrWhen this article was first published on 24 November 2013, the daily amount of methane released per square kilometre was given as tonnes, when it should have been kilogrwhen it should have been kilograms.

He predicted the imminent break - up of sea ice in summer months in 2007, when the previous lowest extent of 4.17 million square kilometres was set.

This may not sound like much but when your total land area is only 0.6 square kilometres and you have a maximum elevation of 1.2 metres above sea level you tend to notice such changes.