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These are dunes that are 100 meters tall, separated by a few kilometers, and they go on for miles and miles and miles.
There's hundreds, up to a 1,000 or 1,200 miles of dunes.
And then, when we took additional pictures, we discovered that from these fractures are issuing jets of fine, icy particles extending hundreds of miles into space.
And when we color-code this image, to bring out the faint light levels, we see that these jets feed a plume that, in fact, we see, in other images, goes thousands of miles into the space above Enceladus.
They can be 200 miles an hour, 300 miles an hour.
These clouds spread out at the top in this enormous anvil fashion stretching 10 miles up into the atmosphere.
Some years ago, I noticed that I had accumulated one million miles on United Airlines alone.
So I got in my car, and I drove three hours north along the coast, and the roads grew emptier and narrower, and then I turned onto an even narrower path, barely paved, that snaked for two miles up to the top of a mountain.
Night had fallen, and I went out under this great overturned saltshaker of stars, and I could see the tail lights of cars disappearing around the headlands 12 miles to the south.
You think about rewards schemes, air miles.
The Economist said a few years ago that there are actually more unredeemed air miles in the world than there are dollar bills in circulation.
So she did things to us, which now she'd be arrested for, such as pushing us out of the car, and telling us to find our own way to Granny's, about five miles before we actually got there.
More than that, how do you convince people to run a distance of 26.2 miles at a time they were not even familiar with the word "marathon"?
In fact, in my office in 1990, I had 18 miles of tape.
For most of human history, we could go no faster than a horse or a boat with a sail, but in 1969, the crew of Apollo 10 flew at 25,000 miles an hour.
This is how it looked in 2013 after we built out 350 miles of on-street bike lanes.
And we've built 30 miles of these protected bike lanes, and now you're seeing them pop up all over the country.
People have ridden seven million miles.
And so we focused on the most congested areas of New York City, built out six bus rapid transit lines, 57 miles of new speedy bus lanes.
The typical Portland citizen drives four miles less, and 11 minutes less per day than they did before.
The economist Joe Cortright did the math and he found out that those four miles plus those 11 minutes adds up to fully three and a half percent of all income earned in the region.
It shares thousands of miles of border with Mexico that is its only route of access from the South, and so, as the former dictator of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, used to say, "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States."
Our city limits are enormous, 620 square miles, but 15 miles is less than 15 minutes.
We also, with another initiative that was passed, are building hundreds of miles of new sidewalks throughout the metro area.
We'll have over 100 miles when we're through building it out.
For example, if either of us wants to go 60 miles an hour, both of us will need an assistive device called a car.
With Chad's group at Brown, I regularly fly drones around his lab several times a week, from my home 3,000 miles away.
Chad Jenkins: Henry, all joking aside, I bet all of these people here would love to see you fly this drone from your bed in California 3,000 miles away.
In the U.S. alone, there's more than four million miles of roads, very expensive to build, very expensive to maintain infrastructure, with a huge ecological footprint, and yet, very often, congested.
(Aquatic noises) So this video was taken at Aquarius undersea laboratory four miles off the coast of Key Largo, about 60 feet below the surface.
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