Unlike the larger Kuiper-belt objects, comet-sized ones would be too faint to show up in a single photograph even one taken by the mighty Hubble.

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While IT professionals might be delighted with a 3D tool that lets them photograph a room for a 3D model in a single day, a consumer wants to shoot it in a few minutes and move on.

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With its flexible flight time, Mach 3 speed, and ability to fly at altitudes above 80, 000 feet, the SR-71 is able to photograph more than 100, 000 square miles of territory in a single hour .

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