Sentence examples for kilometers deep from inspiring English sources
So you go 1.5 kilometers deep, and at that point, there are no bubbles in the ice.
And if you wait two days, it's 2 and 1/2 kilometers deep, and you have a hole this big.
For example, burying spent fuel several kilometers deep in a dry well, called a borehole, may offer significant cost and environmental benefits compared to mined repositories.
So they tried to put photomultipliers 4 and 1/2 kilometers deep off the coast of the main island of Hawaii.
"We now see high ammonia levels like those detected by Galileo from over 100 kilometers deep, where the pressure is about eight times Earth's atmospheric pressure, all the way up to the cloud condensation levels," de Pater said.
That positive result emboldened the project's leaders to push their wells deeper, into 200-degree Centigrade granite five kilometers deep – and last fall they finally turned on the taps.
For instance, during the Pliocene, the layers that are currently above ground were one to two kilometers deeper.
Eager to push even deeper and capitalize on the politics of the moment, the institution is seeing whether further strengthening would allow Alvin to plunge to depths of 4.3 miles (or 7 kilometers), deeper than any of the rival submersibles now operated by Russia, France and Japan.
SAN FRANCISCO--Researchers probing Earth's deep interior are celebrating what could be a startling new find: fresh, seemingly unaltered minerals from hundreds of kilometers deeper than any found before.
(2016), who found water vapor mixing ratios varying between 4 and 11 ppmv near the equator, measured at a sampling altitude a few kilometers deeper than that sensed by VIRTIS.
Martin Duncan of Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and Harold Levison of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, have developed a computer model implying that the gravity of the outer planets stirs up the Kuiper belt, kicking some of its objects into long-lasting orbits that take them billions of kilometers deeper into space.
