Although weather radars have a range of about 250 miles, images within 125 miles are considered the most accurate, Mr. Burgess said.
Taken from a distance of about 71 million miles, the image reveals "tantalizing glimpses of [the Pluto] system," said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, per Space.com.com
The eruption left a swath of devastation covering more than 200 square miles; the images of flattened forests that were so stunning in 1980 are just as startling today.
Get Stormy earned his 10th win in 22 starts, paying $17 on a $2 bet to win.Other undercard winners were Aike- nite in the $348,900 Churchill Downs Stakes, Aviate in the $227,800 ChurchillDistaff Turf Mile, Sassy Image in the$345,600 Humana Distaff for fillies andmares, and Regally Ready in the $111,200 Twin Spires Turf Sprint.
We had driven close to 600 miles, and images of California's past and present -- shadowed adobe walls and a chapel narrow as a railroad apartment, rich black soil, palm-lined boulevards and the most voluptuous hills I'd ever seen -kaleidoscoped in my mind.
A view of the Tonopah Test Range from eighteen miles away, this image is part of Paglen's "Limit Telephotography" series, in which he uses telescopes typically employed in astrophotography in order to shoot far-off places.
By the next morning, when Ikonos was in position to take new pictures of the trade center and the Pentagon from 400 miles above, Space Imaging had taken the unusual step of making images of the disaster sites available free on its Web site, and some competitors had done likewise.
On a good night, Skyjector can toss a picture as far as five miles, magnifying the original image over 25 million times.
The images were taken on November 25 , 1999during Galileo's 25th orbit at a distance of 20,000 kilometers (12,500 miles) from Io. Image processing: Cynthia Phillips.
At Cala Enmedio you're two kilometres from the nearest road and a million miles from the popular image of Spain's costas.
