Sentence examples for longitude line from inspiring English sources
Greenwich has a tremendous visitor centre: you can stand on the zero longitude line.
Each model slice is geolocated along the CloudSat orbit path based on its size, scale and angle with the longitude line that are precisely calculated on the fly.
It's as if all the places in England that are at sea level (ignoring the coast) are on a dead straight line that runs directly north along the 0.5 longitude line.
The mean climate values of the whole province were calculated from three sites (Station No. 57083, 57297, and 57290) nearly equidistantly located from south to north on the medial axis along the longitude line in Henan province.
He succeeded his father, the astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini, as head of the Paris Observatory in 1712, and in 1718 he completed the measurement of the arc of the meridian (longitude line) between Dunkerque and Perpignan.
NASA's 18.8 million-cubic-foot super pressure balloon hit another milestone at 9 17 a.m. EDT Tuesday, May 31, crossing the 169.24 east longitude line, officially completing its first circumnavigation of the globe.
Through every extreme, polies never forget they are standing at the earth's spin axis, where all longitude lines converge.
The distance between two longitude lines varies by latitude, so there is no simple, universal solution to this.
The horizontal grid spacing for T2 is 4 arc minutes and due to the convergence of longitude lines, this means that the actual spatial resolution ranges from ~7 km at the equator to 2.6 km at 69.4°S.
Cote's goal is to demystify this second step by locating a grid of information, like latitude and longitude lines on a map, that helps planarians keep track of their body parts and sense what is missing.
But my guess is that some geocachers are also gadget freaks who, like me, marvel at the idea that a device the size of a chocolate bar can, in concert with a network of distant satellites, transform the abstract grid of latitude and longitude lines created by 19th-century astronomers and cartographers into something average folks can grab on to and utilize.
