Most of the engineering views of the shuttle launch come from still and video cameras within 20 miles of the launch pad.

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But scientists say it will come no closer than 17, 100 miles from our planet's surface.

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All of the water problems of northern China seem to come into sharp focus here, 70 miles from the Yellow River, and even closer to the desert.

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In the extended mission, Cassini could come as close as 24km (15 miles) from the moon's surface.

BBC: Nasa extends Saturn probe mission

Here, sitting on an office chair, thousands of miles away from Darfur, the memories come flooding back.

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Some of the savings will come from refuse vehicles having to travel about 8, 000 miles (13, 000km) less a year.

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Under the plan, BP said that the worst spill from a mobile drilling operation would come from a lease called the Mississippi Canyon 462, about 33 miles off the Louisiana coast.

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Customers come from a 20-mile radius to shop at Whole Foods, compared with just 2 miles for the typical supermarket.

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They all come from the Greenland ice sheet, a vast mass of frozen fresh water, hundreds of miles across and up to two miles thick.

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