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From: dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Discovery's return-to-flight photographs record many firsts (Forwarded)
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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
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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
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