Tomorrow and Thursday , an reckon 43.4 million Americans will trip to celebrate Thanksgiving with their be intimate , hated and annoyed single . allot to NASA , 90 pct will move by road , and the rest will use plane and train . Here are the route , train tracks and flight of stairs paths they will take .
The photograph above shows the route traffic as capture from space by the seeable Infrared Imaging Radio on the Suomi NPP artificial satellite . According to NASA :
The United States has more roads—4.1 million miles ( 6.6 million kilometers)—than any other body politic in the world , and rough 40 per centum more than second - ranked India . About 47,000 of those U.S. miles are part of the Interstate Highway System , ground by President Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s . The state also has 127,000 naut mi ( 204,000 kilometers ) of railway tracks and about 25,000 miles ( 40,000 km ) of navigable river and canal ( not including the Great Lakes ) .
The issue are staggering . The view of the flightpaths — asvisualized by Aaron Koblinat its peak metre — is telling too .
An estimated three million the great unwashed will move in airplanes , harmonise to airlines ’ projection .
The rest will expend the railroad . Here ’s a survey of the railroads combined with the roads by our friendFélix Pharand - Deschênes at Globaïa .
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