Sentence examples for modest altitude from inspiring English sources

Analysts had long warned that a collision with space debris, even though unlikely at shuttle flights' modest altitude, could be catastrophic.

Our trek started in Imlil Valley at a modest altitude of around 2,000m.

In a few weeks Britons will mark the day 50 years ago when a team of climbers representing their small island with its modest altitudes and imperial history reached the summit of the world's highest mountain half a world away, on the borders of Tibet and Nepal.

Most migrations occur at relatively low altitudes.

Jackson Hole is comparatively flat, with only a modest increase in altitude south to north, however a few isolated buttes such as Blacktail Butte and hills including Signal Mountain dot the valley floor.

There is only modest variation in altitude within the study area, from 30 to 180 metres above sea level (IQR 49-99 metres).

Virgin Galactic's first voyages will be modest, with a maximum altitude of just sixty miles or so, or about as far from Earth as Cape Canaveral is from Walt Disney World.

A rational defence review would oblige the RAF to face the reality that it needs a very small number of high-altitude interceptors and a modest force of ground-support aircraft.

Although creatinine rose significantly with altitude, the rise was very modest, and we suspect that a combination of factors other than a simple renal insult is responsible for the increase in NGAL at HA.

Taking advantage of the high altitude, this experiment could achieve relatively low energy threshold with a modest mirror area coverage.

The statistically significant elevations of LDL, while still within the limits of a normal healthy adult range, suggests that even modest alterations in fluid dynamics may be protective at altitude.