Sentence examples for equator arc from inspiring English sources

Alphasat is now drifting along the equator arc.

The great circles represent the ecliptic (wider oblique arc), the equator, and two meridians.

Further, during the growth phase, activities of arcs in the equator half of the oval and arcs in the poleward half of the oval seem to be different.

Their survey proceeded brilliantly, but they also knew, as Whitaker points out, that "they were accomplishing much more than simply measuring the arc at the Equator.

By comparatively measuring the arc at the equator (la Condamine?s team) and at the North Pole (another team sponsored as well by the Paris Academy of Sciences), Newton?s laws of motion and universal gravitation conceived in his Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Newton 1687) were reconfirmed and the two-centuries ruling model of our planet?s elongation at the poles was debunked.

(The geographical mile is defined as one minute of arc along the Earth's equator; compare the nautical mile, defined as one minute of arc along any great circle route).

In 1735 an expedition led by the French naturalist Charles-Marie de La Condamine began to measure the arc of the meridian at the Equator in the Andes, and for several years this group surveyed the Ecuadorian ranges.

In 1735 he set off on an expedition with C.M. de la Condamine to measure an arc of the meridian near the Equator in Peru; he used the results obtained to make a new determination of Earth's shape.

What the combination of this giant lens and Dr Gwinn's computers provides is not so much magnification (the gaseous lens magnifies the pulsar only four times) as resolution the ability to discriminate between objects that are close together.The largest optical telescopes on earth can distinguish between things that are separated by about one second of arc (a 1,296,000th of the celestial equator).

To visualize geographical patterns in SRR diversity of all species, we carried out grid-based spatial analyses at a resolution of 30 arc sec (~1 km at the equator).

China had begun searching its territory for any sign of the plane after the shifting of the search to a huge arc stretching north and south of the equator, Huang said.