Sentence examples for its longitude from inspiring English sources

The latitude of the Euler pole position of the PHS Plate since 15 Ma is required to be similar to that of the collision zone between the IBM Arc and Southwest Japan based on the lack of significant movement of the collision zone, but it is difficult to constrain its longitude.

Undaunted, Mr. Rich and Mr. Oldroyd scurry up a wooded path to a spot displayed by its longitude and latitude on their hand-held Global Positioning System receivers.

He made observations on the island of Malta to establish its longitude, led an eclipse expedition to Brazil, and investigated the distribution and motions of the stars.

9.02am BST Three hundred years ago, the British government threw down the gauntlet, offering a huge prize to anyone who thought they could solve one of the great scientific challenges of that century: how to pinpoint a ship's location at sea by determining its longitude.

The position of a geosynchronous satellite is indicated by its longitude.

Indian map is divided into grids by its longitude and latitude.

The G.P.S. device for the Palm, which is about the size of a flattened beer can, tracks these broadcasts and uses them to calculate its own longitude, latitude and altitude with an accuracy of 100 yards or less.

and a given ionospheric (shell) height, the slant TEC along the ray path can be converted, usually using a simple cosine function of the satellite zenith, into the vertical TEC (VTEC, for simplicity hereafter, TEC) at its associated longitude and latitude (Tsai and Liu, 1999).

A transit occurs when Venus reaches conjunction with the Sun at or near one of its nodes the longitude where Venus passes through the Earth's orbital plane (the ecliptic)—and appears to pass directly across the Sun.

When two geographic coordinates of a control point on the Earth's surface, its latitude and longitude, are known, as well as its elevation above sea level, the location of that point is known with an accuracy within the limits of error involved in the surveying processes.

We assigned each species occurrence to a sub-region, based on its associated latitude, longitude, and depth information, or where it was listed as sampled in a specific site within the original study (e.g. Canyons, NE Channel).