Sentences with phrase «surface than above it»

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Until now, Blue Origin's rockets had been designed to go into suborbital space, which entails flying more than 62 miles above the earth's surface, but not high enough to make a full revolution.

The simple answer is that all those resources make big companies much slower learners than the duck - like entrepreneurs — who appear calm above water while they're rapidly paddling beneath the surface.

Because they still have poor head control and often experience flexion of the head while in a sitting position, infants younger than 1 month in sitting devices might be at increased risk of upper airway obstruction and oxygen desaturation.128, — , 132 In addition, there is increasing concern about injuries from falls resulting from car seats being placed on elevated surfaces.133, — , 137 An analysis of CPSC data revealed 15 suffocation deaths between 1990 and 1997 resulting from car seats overturning after being placed on a bed, mattress, or couch.136 The CPSC also warns about the suffocation hazard to infants, particularly those who are younger than 4 months, who are carried in infant sling carriers.138 When infant slings are used for carrying, it is important to ensure that the infant's head is up and above the fabric, the face is visible, and that the nose and mouth are clear of obstructions.

But if we can react to situations and behaviors in a different way, we can start dealing with the part of the iceberg that's below the surface of the water, rather than just constantly addressing the small percentage that we can see above the water.

Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park stands 212 feet above the river's surface and is more than 6,700 feet (1.28 miles) long, making it the longest, elevated pedestrian bridge in the world.

Without the dispersant injection, the model showed that benzene concentrations in the air 2 meters above the sea surface would have been 13 times higher than the levels considered acceptable to breathe during a 10 - hour working day or a 40 - hour work week, based on guidelines by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Jupiter is 2.5 times more massive than all the other planets combined, so massive that its barycenter with the Sun actually lies above the Sun's surface (1.068 solar radii from the Sun's center).

And around Antarctica, where even the surface ocean water is already quite cold and dense, some of that water in the ocean depths, which is also carbon rich, eventually warmed enough so that it became less dense than the water above it.

Felix Baumgartner broke the mark for highest - ever skydive after leaping from a balloon more than 38 kilometers above Earth's surface on October 14

The egg should have floated (with part of it above the water surface) in these two cups because the solutions were denser than the egg.

Since the surface is a few tenths of a degree cooler than the water below, when a wave breaks, the warmer water beneath (orange and red) mixes with the cooler water above (blue and violet).

EFT - 1 flew the Orion capsule to more than 15 times further from Earth than the International Space Station, about 3,600 miles above the planet's surface.

Whizzing 200 miles above the Martian surface at 2.2 miles per second, it will pick out finer surface details on Mars than commercial satellites can show us on Earth, where cameras have to ride twice as far above the ground to avoid our planet's thicker atmosphere.

As expected, the simulations showed that the larger, 1 - km asteroid created the bigger splash, throwing 42 trillion kilograms of water and vapour — enough to fill 16 million Olympic - sized swimming pools — across an area more than 1000 kilometres wide and up to hundreds of kilometres above the Earth's surface.

In the tropics at heights more than 10 miles above the surface, the prevailing winds alternate between strong easterlies and strong westerlies roughly every other year.

Phobos circles just 3,721 miles above the Martian surface (Earth's moon averages a distance of 239,000 miles) and completes an orbit in 7 hours and 39 minutes, making a Phobos «month» on Mars less than one - third of a Martian day.

Specifically, liquid CO2 is heavier than the water above it at 8,850 feet (2,700 meters) or more under the surface, meaning any leaks would never bubble back into the atmosphere.

Nathaniel Johnson and Shang - Ping Xie at the University of Hawaii studied satellite and rain - gauge data from the last 30 years and found that sea surface temperatures in the tropics now need to be about 0.3 °C higher than they did in 1980 before the air above rises and produces rain (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1008).

Now, using NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, scientists have found that this atmosphere, called the corona, is even larger than thought, extending out some 5 million miles above the sun's surface — the equivalent of 12 solar radii.

It can house more than 100 people above ground at a time, while fuel and cargo storage, waste - management facilities, maintenance garages and a power plant are all located beneath the surface of the ice sheet.

The cortex is the thin layer of cells on the surface of the brain that governs many functions, and in elephants it contains a greater variety of cell types (such as the extensively branched neuron pictured above) than is found in more frequently studied animals such as rodents and primates.

The knobs, which appear in a row spaced about 4 millimetres apart, are raised less than 1 mm above the bone surface.

Although the bugbot's body rests just 1 centimeter above the water's surface and its legs are just 5 centimeters long, it can leap to a height of more than 14 centimeters, the researchers note.

However, above 6 metres per second, the wind transfers more energy than surface tension can cope with.

On Saturday, the drill had encountered water at about 3766 meters depth, but the team determined that it was a water lens sitting above the surface of the lake rather than the lake itself.

Each OCO - 2 reading will sample a column of the atmosphere above roughly 3 square kilometers of Earth's surface — much smaller than the 85 - square - kilometer footprint of a similar Japanese probe, the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), which launched in 2009 and is still operating.

In addition, the larger than expected loss of UV light meant less stratospheric ozone up to 45 kilometers above the surface, but more above that line.

Phobos orbits closer to a major planet than any other moon in the solar system, less than 6000 km (3728 miles) above the surface of Mars, and is also one of the smaller known moons in the solar system.

As New Scientist has previously reported, this means we are passing an ominous milestone, with global surface temperatures now more than 1 °C above the pre-industrial average.

Above the surface, global observations since the late 1950s show that the troposphere (up to about 10 km) has warmed at a slightly greater rate than the surface, while the stratosphere (about 10 — 30 km) has cooled markedly since 1979.

The moss layer is located between about 1500 to 4000 km (1000 - 2500 miles) above the solar surface, much lower than the typical coronal loop apex heights.

It occurs in large patches, about 6,000 - 12,000 miles in extent, and appears between 1,000 - 1,500 miles above the Sun's visible surface, sometimes reaching more than 3,000 miles high.

Beyond low Earth orbit, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Experiment (LADEE) will, among other things, attempt to discover the cause of a faint glow witnessed above the moon's surface by the Apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago.

Most of Earth's land surfaces were warmer than average or much warmer than average, according to the Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above, with record warmth notable across most of equatorial and northeastern South America and parts of southeastern Asia.

Radar observations find that about 80 percent of the surface is covered by lava flows with a few Australia - size uplands of two to five km (1.2 to 3.1 miles) high, and there are large shield volcanoes that rise above the plains as high as 11 km (6.8 miles)-- higher than Mount Everest's eight km (five miles) above Earth sea - level.

Once heated, the ocean surface becomes warmer than the atmosphere above, and because of this heat flows from the warm ocean to the cool atmosphere above.

Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system.

The above quote means that your goal as the driver is to attempt to ensure that the clutch is spending more time in a static friction mode (i.e., where the frictional surfaces of the clutch are turning at the same speed, pressed tightly together) rather than a kinetic friction mode (i.e., where the frictional surfaces are turning at different speeds and are slipping past each other).

These measurement actually take distance in account, they don't care of the angle of a cone of light or its intensity per se, If you want you can consider them as a measure of the results of all the defined above as they will indicate how illuminated the target surface is and its what changes when we say that one headlight is brighter than the other

The electric motor is virtually silent, with just a muted rumble from the tyres reminding you that you're connected to the road surface rather than floating just above it.

The Cayenne has always been known to drive like a sports car rather than an SUV and to take that experience a notch above, the company has also fitted rear - axle steering and surface coated brakes with the option of ceramic composite brakes in the Cayenne.

As revealed by Digitimes, the consumer version of the Surface will be priced above $ 599, which makes it a $ 100 more than the base version of the iPad and a lot more in a disadvantage in the great tablet game.

Overall, it's clear that the Atom CPU inside the Iconia W510 offers snappier performance than ARM - based slates like the Surface with RT, but Core - powered devices are a big step above Atom.

The above dimensions, if correct, would mean a drastic deterioration in screen - to - surface ratio — vertically to as bad as a Sony tablet and horizontally worse than last year's model.

On Geekbench 3, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall performance, the Surface 3 scored a solid 3,351, which is well above the tablet category average (2,404) but lower than the Intel Core M 5Y10 - powered T300 Chi (4,319), the A8X - powered iPad Air 2 (4,547) and the Core i5 - 4300U - powered Surface Pro 3 (5,665).

To figure out the right amount to trim on a parrot's wings, start with less than what seems to be required and then test the bird by holding it not too far above a soft surface and letting it go.

[1] As it cools, the surface air becomes denser than the warmer air above it, and thus becomes trapped below it.

The water is only 1 ft deep above the reef crest and no more than 50 ft below the surface near the wall.

But fear not, the video above suggests that the system will indeed be more complex than it looks on the surface.

On the surface, the Super Robot Wars games look more allegorical than Gundam Musou above.