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The golf cart-size rover is expected to remain at the 22-kilometer-wide crater for the next few years.
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They have decided it is going to be at the foot of a mountain that's located within a deep, 150-kilometer-wide depression called Gale Crater.
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Two hours after the convergence of probehound and ship, a kilometer-wide gap between the severed edges of the Ring glistened in the sunlight like two giant fluorescent light bulbs standing on end.
May « 2009 « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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Trucking in Senegal involves a long, often pot-holed route that cuts across Gambia, the small, 35-kilometer-wide country along the Gambia River.
In Senegal, Concerns Linger after Gambia Blockade Lifted 2011
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Radioactivity forced officials to create a 30-kilometer-wide no-habitation zone around Chernobyl, sealing off Pripyat.
Japanese Nuclear Crisis Renews International Safety Concerns 2011
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Two hours after the convergence of probehound and ship, a kilometer-wide gap between the severed edges of the Ring glistened in the sunlight like two giant fluorescent light bulbs standing on end.
USURPER OF THE SUN - NOJIRI « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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Radioactivity forced officials to create a 30-kilometer-wide no-habitation zone around Chernobyl, sealing off Pripyat.
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Radioactivity forced officials to create a 30-kilometer-wide no-habitation zone around Chernobyl, sealing off Pripyat.
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The policy has helped reduce tensions across the 100-mile-wide 160-kilometer-wide Taiwan Strait to their lowest level in six decades and has put the DPP until recently a fervent backer of formal Taiwanese independence slightly on the defensive.
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Trucking in Senegal involves a long, often pot-holed route that cuts across Gambia, the small, 35-kilometer-wide country along the Gambia River.
In Senegal, Concerns Linger after Gambia Blockade Lifted 2011
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