In Southern California, you can view snow-capped mountains from a warm sandy beach.

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This second floor had a terrace from which there was a lovely view of snow-capped mountains.

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But the end result, devotees say, is worth it: nine spacious suites with heated floors and high ceilings and verdant 150-year-old vineyards surrounded by a view of snow-capped mountain peaks.

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Using satellite-based snow melt maps supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA) backed program Polar View, herders are able to view the depth of snow and judge where the best foraging spots are to take their reindeer.

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Later, the camera settles on a spectacular view of a snow-capped mountain range, a shot that Cobb likely took himself during one of his hunting excursions.

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This is precisely the view available back in Snow Command.

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Not only did Microsoft have to take and process a lot of images, it also had to correct for cloud cover, snow, and other impediments to a ground view.

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World Bank president James Wolfensohn said he would want to take any request to provide technical assistance to Iraq to his board before agreeing to such a step - a point of view which seemed to both surprise and dismay Mr Snow.

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The view from the ramparts was breathtaking, of the Radnai snow tops painted horse-fat-yellow in the wintry dusk.

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It is here, over the tops of the inevitable ducks, that Gokyo Ri first comes into view, its brown rounded form a contrast to the snow-covered, sharp-tipped lines of Cho Oyu beyond.

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Under the Polar View initiative, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) have been providing snow melt maps for Norway and Sweden, as well as snow cover maps for Eurasia, for the last 18 months.

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Before the snow hit, information went out to retailers, editors, stylists and bloggers on how to view the Donna Karan and Helmut Lang shows online and through phone apps for those unable to attend in person.

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The ICR partnered with Polar View in a trial of the maps to examine how satellite observations could help by gathering information on snow change in a timely manner for such vast circumpolar regions.

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