the search. nbc's tom costello has been following the developments overnight, and he has the latest on the satellite images and the search there. so, tom, tell me this, these images are a few days old. explain. >> reporter: yeah. yeah, they were taken four days ago, and just now we're told once they weeded through them and tried to decipher what exactly they're looking at, they got the impression that this is something significant here in the waters, as you mentioned, off of the coast of perth, australia. what's interesting, also, here is the remoteness of this location. we're talking about 10,000 to 16,000 feet of water is what those images will be floating on top of. so potentially the wreckage would be below that somewhere. hundreds -- within hundreds of miles range of that. let me go back to the main map here and show you how this plays into the overall scheme. here's malaysian down here. that flight, therefore, took one very long detour to the very end, we believe, exhausted...