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Article #8744Re: Discovery's return-to-flight photographs record many firsts (Forwarded)
From: Doug Krause
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1989 10:45
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1989 10:45
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In article <22768@ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes: > As a result, the STS-26 photographs captured details not >usually seen in Shuttle photography: for the first time, an >aircraft was photographed generating a contrail; individual >buildings could be seen in the Canary Islands; a line of >electrical transmission pylons was seen in southern Sudan; and >oil platform flares were seen in the Gulf of Campeche. Could these be seen without the cameras? I ask because we've all been told that the Great Wall is the only manmade object visible from space. Douglas Krause "You can't legislate morality" -George Bush --------------------------------------------------------------------- University of California, Irvine ARPANET: dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu Welcome to Irvine, Yuppieland USA BITNET: DJKrause@ucivmsa
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!dkrause From: dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Doug Krause) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Discovery's return-to-flight photographs record many firsts (Forwarded) Message-ID: <1595@orion.cf.uci.edu> Date: 16 Mar 89 10:45:28 GMT References: <22768@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Reply-To: dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Doug Krause) Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 16