PIX4660195: Detroit d'Ormuz - 02/2011 - Strait of Hormuz - 02/2011 - Detroit d'Ormuz seen by Envisat satellite on February 4, 2011. The south - eastern parts of Iran (top) and the Arabian Peninsula are featured in this image, acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on 4 February 2011. The closest point between the two Middle Eastern countries is the Strait of Hormuz (centre), which links the Persian Gulf (left) with the Gulf of Oman (upper right) and the Arabian Sea (lower right). Several countries are visible on the peninsula: the United Arab Emirates (top left), Oman (tip and bottom right) and Saudi Arabia (far left and bottom) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4650532: LHC: Installation of the ATLAS calorimeter - LHC: Installing the ATLAS calorimeter - Central view of the ATLAS detector with its eight toroid magnets surrounding the calorimeter before it is moved to the center of the detector. The calorimeter measures the energy of the particles produced during the collision between the protons in the center of the detector. The eight toroid magnets can be seen surrounding the calorimeter that is later moved into the middle of the detector. This calorimeter will measure the energies of particles produced when protons collide in the centre of the detector / Bridgeman Images
PIX4669572: A ring of rocks and dust is orbiting the Earth. The massive continent below is Pangee and the ocean to the west is Panthalassa. This is what Earth was supposed to look like at the end of Permian, about 260 million years ago, before the first dinosaurs appeared. This ring around the Earth was of earthly origin, constitutes debris thrown into orbit by collision with a meteorite or comet. Over time, these debris have fallen or fallen to Earth in a meteorite rain - A dusty ring arc orbits four thousand miles above Earth's equator. The massive continent below is Pangea and the ocean to the west is Panthalassa. This is how the Earth may have appeared during the end of the Permian period, a time just prior to the appearance of the dinosaurs, when continental drift was pulling Pangea apart into the seven continents we know today - 260 million years ago the Earth may have been host to ring arcs similar to the incomplete rings that currently circumscribe the planet Neptune . Unlike Neptune's rings, the ring arcs around the Earth were of terrestrial origin, debris thrown into orbit by a collision with a large meteorite or comet. The debris consisted of tiny pebbles that were once molten droplets of ejecta, long since cooled in the vacuum of space. The orbit of the ring arc would eventually decay, returning the debris back to Earth as a shower of meteorites. This debris is found on Earth's surface today in the form of dark, glassy objects known as tektites.: La Terre à la fin du Permien - Ring arcs over the Permian Earth / Bridgeman Images
PIX4655293: Circumpolar above the dome of the 1.93 m of the Observatory of Haute - Provence - Haute - Provence Observatory, the 1.93 m telescope dome - Photographic pose showing the apparent rotation of stars around the polar star (circumpolar). Below, the dome of the 1.93 m telescope of the Observatory of Haute Provence. This is where the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995. The Observatory of Haute-Provence is located in the south-east of France, near the village of St. Michel l'Observatoire, a hundred kilometers north of Marseille, on a plateau with an average altitude of 650 meters. Long exposure image of starry sky around the pole star (circumpolar). Below, the 1.93 m telescope dome. Here has been discovered the first extrasolar planet (51 Peg b) in 1995. OHP is situated in the southeast of France, it lies at an altitude of about 650 m, near the village of Saint-Michel l'Observatoire / Bridgeman Images
ETE4931822: WWII:Lorient (France) May 10, 1945: Poche de Lorient (France) May 10, 1945: After the surrender of German General Fahrmbacher (Commander of the German Forces of La Poche), the garrison was assembled under the custody of the soldiers of the 25th French DI of General Chomel / Bridgeman Images
ETE4865502: WWII - Battle of the Bulge (WWII): A 57 mm anti-tank gun served by soldiers of the 83rd DI of the 1st US Army monitors a snow corridor between two fir forests on the road halfway between Houffalize and Saint Vith (Saint Vith) - Photograph taken in Bovigny (Belgium), January 21, 1945 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4655209: Mauna Kea Observatory. Radiotelescopes - Radiotelescopes at Mauna Kea Observatory - View of the Mauna Kea Observatory located 4200 metres above sea level in Hawaii, USA. Here, the radiotelescopes with in the foreground the CSO (Caltech Submillimeter Observatory), then the JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope) and the SMA antenna network (Sub - Millimeter Array). Foreground is CSO (Caltech Submillimeter Observatory), then, JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope) and background is the antennas network SMA (Sub - Millimeter Array) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625712: Saturn - Illustration - Saturn - Illustration - Artist's view of the planet Saturn. The ring system is composed from the closest to Saturn to the furthest by ring D, then C, B, the division of Cassini, A with the division of Encke, F, G and E. The brightest part of the rings is ring B. This image suggests how Saturn might look from high above the ring plane and at a right angle to the Sun, a perspective that we could never get from the Earth nor from the Hubble Space Telescope / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606628: Mars Express probe - Artist's View - Mars Express artist's view - The European probe Mars Express leaves the Earth propelled by the upper floor Fregat. This probe was launched on 2 June 2003 and began its observations in early 2004. Mars Express left Earth for Mars on 2 June 2003 when the positions of the two planets made for the shortest possible route, a condition that occurs once every twenty - six months. The european spaceprobe began its March observations in 2004. Mars Express was mounted on the Fregat upper stage. Most of the energy needed to propel Mars Express from Earth to Mars is provided by the four - stage Soyuz/Fregat launcher. The Fregat upper stage separated from the spacecraft after placed it on a Mars - bound trajectory / Bridgeman Images