Sentences with phrase «wider than the earth»

The radius of the ring is 50 times wider than the Earth's orbit.

Now Nikolai Kardashev and his colleagues at the Astro Space Centre in Moscow are hoping to change that using a vast radio telescope with a view equivalent to that of a dish 30 times wider than Earth.

Although Jupiter is ten times wider than Earth, it manages to spin around 2.5 times as fast as our little planet.

It's a storm wider than Earth — one that has been raging for several hundred years.

Its diameter is around 1,392,000 kilometres (865,000 miles), about 110 times wider than Earth's.

Not exact matches

Wildfire seasons all over the planet are lasting longer than they have in the past and burning wider swaths of land, and Earth's changing climate is to blame, according to a new report.

This huge feature is sometimes called the «Grand Canyon» of Mars — but it's about four times longer, 20 times wider, and nearly five times deeper than Earth's famous natural landmark.

«You who have grasped that the world — the world beloved of God — has, even more than individuals, a soul to be redeemed, 1 lay your whole being wide open to my inspiration, and receive the spirit of the earth which is to be saved.

And thank you America for the freedom of speech you granted the world and has provided us the utilities of communications asking us to contribute with our expressions towards» Change for the Good of ship and passengers on board» since there is no Ark better than earth to save us in this wide unpredictable space?!

It covers a wider area than the items just noted, for it includes not only such physical matters as rain or fair weather but such vital spiritual issues as the opening up of opportunities for personal enrichment or for service, the well - being of loved ones, the establishment of peace on earth.

The religions of the world are more blood guilty than are atheists, for at Revelation 18:24, concerning the world wide empire of false religion called Babylon the Great (Rev 17:5), that includes Catholicism, it says: «Yes, in her was found the blood of prophets and of holy ones and of all those who have been slaughtered on the earth.»

To insure the beam's integrity, the laser travels through sealed stainless steel tubes, 1.2 meters wide, that hold a vacuum to just one trillionth of earth's atmosphere, eight times less than open space.

NASA's Spaceguard survey program, established in 1998, aims to locate and follow at least 90 percent of the estimated 1,100 asteroids that come within about 30 million miles of Earth's orbit around the sun and that are larger than two - thirds of a mile wide.

For example, she notes, they have to arbitrarily assume that the domain wall isn't much thicker than Earth is wide.

This map shows the overlapping orbits (blue) of the 1,400 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids — objects more than about 400 feet wide that can approach within 4.6 million miles of Earth.

GJ 1214 b GJ 1214 b is nearly three times as wide and some 300ºF hotter than Earth, but it may nonetheless have an abundance of life's most prized commodity: liquid water.

NASA researchers have their own plan, the Near - Earth Object Program — the agency's program to spot 90 percent of all potentially hazardous asteroids more than two - thirds of a mile wide that might hit Earth in the foreseeable future.

GJ 1214 b's tale of the tape: about five Earths wide, with six - and - a-half times the mass, and a density several times lower than CoRoT - 7b's.

These dancing ribbons of light are about 1,000 times as powerful as Earth's and are longer than our planet is wide.

Its famous Great Red Spot, a storm more than twice as wide as Earth, has churned for at least 150 years.

Seismologists investigating how Earth forms new continental crust have compiled more than 20 years of seismic data from a wide swath of South America's Andean Plateau and determined that processes there have produced far more continental rock than previously believed.

The new, high - resolution map of the mantle — the hot rock below Earth's crust but above the planet's iron core — not only shows these connections for many hotspots on the planet, but reveals that below about 1,000 kilometers the plumes are between 600 and 1,000 kilometers across, up to five times wider than geophysicists thought.

NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

Objects more than a half - mile wide — which strike Earth every 250,000 years or so — would touch off firestorms followed by global cooling from dust kicked up by the impact.

«Africa is the last place on Earth with a wide range of large mammals, yet today there are more African plants, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and large mammals threatened than ever before by a range of both human - induced and natural causes.»

If it had more mass than that of a large mountain, it would be stable and would immediately sink through the ground, consuming the planet from within until there was nothing left but an Earth - mass black hole, about one - third of an inch wide.

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.

Researchers found that on average, Hadean Earth could have been hit by one to four impactors that were more than 600 miles wide and capable of global sterilization, and by three to seven impactors more than 300 miles wide and capable of global ocean vaporization.

Over Sentinel's 6 1/2 year mission, it will complete NASA's mandate to find 90 percent of the near - Earth asteroids larger than 140 meters wide.

Video: The small planet Exo - 7b, which is no more than twice as wide as Earth, was discovered by the way it dimmed its host star's light when it passed between the star and Earth (Illustrated animation courtesy of COROT / Tautenburg Observatory / Klaudia Einhorn)

Earth is struck by an asteroid 60 meters (more than 190 feet) wide approximately once every 1500 years, whereas an asteroid 400 meters (more than 1,300 feet) across is likely to strike the planet every 100,000 years, according to Rumpf.

Now, another team has taken a climate model designed for Earth and pasted it onto Proxima b and found an even wider range of circumstances in which Proxima b could have liquid water than the earlier study.

The Near - Earth Object Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer and IPAC announce the NEOWISE 2018 Data Release with 10.3 million calibrated image sets and more than 76.8 billion source detections.

The researchers concluded that the most likely perturber of WASP 3 b's orbit is an additional planet, about 15 times the mass of Earth, following a wider orbit than that of the known planet.

That same year, using six months of observations from ground - based amateur - style telescopes, scientists announced GJ 1214b, a planet 6.5 times more massive than Earth and 2.7 times wider.

Kepler uses a very wide field telescope and a photometer (light meter) to measure brightness variations in more than 156,000 stars simultaneously [source: Ames Research Center, NASA Finds Earth - size Planet Candidates].

Only discovered sixteen days ago, the 400 - metre - wide asteroid will fly past Earth at a safe distance slightly farther than the Moon's orbit on 31 October at 5:05 pm GMT.

From about 6,500 miles (10,500 km) where details as small as 1.2 miles (2.0 km) wide are visible, Vesta appears to be as heavily cratered but even more colorful than Earth's Moon (more).

Between the wide leg pants and the warm, earth tones, something about this set strikes just the right retro notes for me — like a 70s reporter at the New York Times or perhaps a possible outfit from Annie Hall's closet — and I'm more than OK with that.

I can totally see the inspiration, even if your pants are an inch less wide than you I tended:) how on earth did you get your plaid to match up like that?!!

At that distance, the sun loomed 3 times wider and felt more than 10 times hotter than it does on Earth.

Artemis is the name of the first city on the moon, where the wealth divide is even wider than here on Earth.

More than the cold, we're both drawn to remote, wide - open spaces that, in Antarctica, are incomparable to anywhere else on earth.

Not only is it the largest sand island in the world — 123 kilometres (76 miles) long and 22 kilometres (14 miles) wide — but it's the only place on Earth where tall rainforests grow on sand dunes at elevations of more than 200 metres (656 feet).

-- «a wide range of climate models... suggest about a 5 percent chance that world temperatures will eventually rise by more than 10 degrees Celsius (that is, world temperatures will rise by 18 degrees Fahrenheit)... enough to «effectively destroy planet Earth as we know it.»

But Earth has seen a wider range than just one doubling of CO2.

Despite the fact that the film delineates a few impacts of an Earth - wide temperature boost anticipated by researchers, for example climbing ocean levels, more dangerous storms, and disturbance of sea ebbs and flows and climate designs, it portrays these occasions incident a great deal more quickly and intensely than is recognized logically possible, and the hypothesis that a superstorm will make quick worldwide environmental change does not show up in the investigative writing.

Life on earth sees in a wider spectrum than just humans do.

«Most circulation patterns on Earth are much wider than they are high, with the ratio height / length being in the order of 10 - 2 for hurricanes and down to 10 - 3 and below in larger regional circulations.

It is all that our eyes can see, yet less than half of the solar radiation that reaches the Earth lies within this thin, central slice of a much wider spectrum of wavelengths.