Sentence examples for height kilometres from inspiring English sources

Cold-water coral reefs can be many meters in height, kilometres in length and provide important habitat and nursery areas for many species, including commercially important fish species [2].

Geodetic satellites are positioned at a height of 700 800 kilometres above the Earth.

His early studies were on rainbows and on the Aurora Borealis, which he estimated to have a height of 740 kilometres (460 miles).

A consortium backed by the troubled electronics giant Motorola, Iridium has covered the world with a constellation of 66 satellites orbiting the earth at a height of 780 kilometres.

A 90-minute flight will carry six passengers to a height of 100 kilometres; but not without risk.

They rise from the lower chromosphere at about 20 km (12 miles) per second to a height of several thousand kilometres, and then within 10 15 minutes they disperse or collapse.

At night the absorption is low since little plasma exists at the height of roughly 100 kilometres where absorption is greatest.

Applied to the atmosphere, equation (124) would imply that the pressure falls to zero at a height of about 10 kilometres.

The most notable feature on the surface of Vesta is a large circular depression at its south pole, which is surrounded by cliffs several kilometres in height.

The numerical value of J2, o is approximately 0.001; for a satellite at the height of roughly 740 kilometres, with i = 20°, equation (9) gives ω as 6.5° per day.

A pioneer satellite designed for geodetic purposes was Lageos (Laser Geodynamic Satellite), launched by the United States on May 4 , 1976 into a nearly circular orbit at a height of approximately 6,000 kilometres.