When they made this return journey, they began their characteristic nest-searching behaviour, quartering the ground in detail looking for the entrance, after travelling about ten metres.

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In the days and weeks before each Honor Flight, an army of ground volunteers coordinates every detail of each trip -- from the buses that pick them up to the meals they eat.

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Nasa had positioned more than 100 cameras both on the ground and in the air to capture as much detail as possible on Discovery's ascent into orbit.

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This is exactly the kind of speech that he ought to have been giving all along, more detail about what's happening on the ground.

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On Syria, can you detail a little bit more specifically where this common ground is forged?

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PRODES, relies mainly on Landsat, an American satellite which provides colour images of great detail (each pixel represents 30 metres on the ground).

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Further complication came from the fact that very little in this event was a surprise. iOS 5 had already been announced and described in some detail, so even when the product announcements began, new news was a little thin on the ground.

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