Sentence examples for approached the surface from inspiring English sources

Images taken by the spacecraft as it approached the surface showed one large crater, 500 feet wide, and a smattering of small ones.

State-run China Central Television showed a computer-generated image of the Chang'e 3 lander's path as it approached the surface of the moon yesterday, explaining that during its 12-minute landing period it would have no contact with Earth.

The movie -- more of a filmstrip, really, but spectacular nonetheless -- consists of 64 images taken by the spacecraft as it approached the surface of the 21-mile-long asteroid.

Starting with an equation Euler first wrote down more than two centuries ago to describe the motion of spinning objects, Dr. Moffatt calculated that heavier discs rolled longer and that the rolling speed increased as the disc approached the surface.

A droplet that approached the surface was sensed using a photodetector and after a known delay, a light source was triggered to illuminate the particle in order to photograph it with a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera.

The leading edge of the 700-foot-long amoeba-shaped plume -- which is spreading downhill from the old factory -- has approached the surface of the gravelly soil in some places and, if nothing is done, could eventually make its way into several creeks and possibly Lake Erie, the officials said.

Others live deeper and do not approach the surface.

The pressure drops as the boiling water approaches the surface, causing it to flash into steam.

Gravity anomalies are low over thick sedimentary layers and high when denser rocks approach the surface.

"But as the diver approaches the surface, the decreasing water pressure causes a drop in pressure of the oxygen in the brain.

Their energy is spent in crossing that great submerged highland east of Cape Cod known as Georges Bank, the crests of whose highest hills approach the surface at the Cultivator Shoals.