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• The submersible had caught it at a distance of about 750 feet.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• For the 4-point shot, there will be four circles, two at each end of the court, that will be placed above the current three-point line at a distance of 28-feet from the rim.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2023
• The purr was captured at a distance of one meter from the microphone to Bella, which is equivalent to just over one yard.
  — Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 18 Oct. 2023
• Directly in front at a distance of 14 miles (23 kilometers) sat Popocatepetl, puffing smoke, the rim of its crater aglow.
  — MarÍa Verza, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• Since the picture was taken from so far away — at a distance of 1.4 million miles — Bennu appears as just a few pixels of light moving across space.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2023
• The classic user manual says that it should be sprayed at a distance of about six inches, leaving it on for a couple of minutes and then brushing it out.
  — Ana Morales, Vogue, 23 Mar. 2024
• The comet will approach its closest point to Earth on June 2, passing by at a distance of approximately 144 million miles.
  — The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2024
• The famous Horsehead nebula, just below the left star in Orion's belt, is the closest giant star-forming region to Earth at a distance of about 1,375 light years.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
• Usually, at a distance of about 1 solar diameter, your eyes won’t see the corona, but cameras will.
  — Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2024
• At such distances, sending signals back to the 200-inch Hale telescope at Mount Palomar in California is roughly equivalent to hitting a dime at a distance of one mile.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2023
• Its microwave signal is (just) below the legal maximum power density for consumer mobile devices at a distance of 20 centimeters from the quad patch antenna.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Apr. 2016
• Voyager 1, at a distance of 24 billion km from Earth, and Voyager 2 have both left the Solar System, exploring the barren but scientifically interesting interstellar medium.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024