The phrase "a very low altitude" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a height that is significantly close to the ground, often in contexts related to aviation, geography, or environmental science.
Example: "The drone was flying at a very low altitude, capturing detailed images of the landscape below."
Alternatives: "a minimal altitude" or "a low elevation".
"At that stage the plane was at a very low altitude".
The article also referred incorrectly to the advantages of flying at a very low altitude, as Lindbergh did in daytime.
Since the astronauts circled the moon at a very low altitude, they were able to take the most detailed photos of the dark side of the moon ever taken.
The pilot of the small Italian passenger plane left Jordan yesterday saying that he was going to Syria and then turned and flew at a very low altitude into Iraq.
Employing an ultra-sensitive gradiometer on a very low altitude orbit in along-track drag-free condition, within about 2 years GOCE will provide a global model of the Earth's gravity field and of the geoid to unprecedented spatial resolution and accuracy.
In September 1976, a war of the worlds of sorts occurred in the city of Tehran, Iran, when an unknown object began to circle the city at a very low altitude.
The novel mission concept foresees a formation of very low altitude parasitic small satellites capturing the signal transmitted by existing LEO SARs in C and X bands.
In 2009, the satellite has been revolving in an orbit of very low altitude (≃320. km).
A mission architecture for very low altitude nanosatellite swarms using a space-based pulsed laser propulsion is described.
The F‐111's biggest short coming has been its failure to come anywhere near meeting its primary goal to fly a sig nificant distance at very low altitude, perhaps 250 feet or less, at a supersonic speed of about 900 miles an hour.
The digital elevation model shows an elevation ranging from very low altitude of 1646 to 2394 m above sea level.
