PIX4638989: Return to the Moon: arrival in lunar orbit - Artist view - The Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit - Artist view - Lunar program Constellation. The module resides Orion docks to the planing module in orbit around the Moon. Orion should be able to take a crew of four to six astronauts to the Moon in 2020. The Orion manned spacecraft, docked to the lunar module, in lunar orbit. The Nasa's Project Constellation plans to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars; each Orion spacecraft will carry a crew of four to six astronauts / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638440: Southern Right Whale - Southern Right Whale - Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis). Peninsule Valdes, Argentina. The drawings and shape of the southern right whale's tail identify it as a fingerprint. Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis). Valdes Peninsula, Argentina / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638579: Faux de Verzy - Marne - Dwarf Beech - Faux de Verzy - France - Tortuosa (Fagus Sylvatica var Tortuosa). This remarkable tree is a rare beech variety with contorted branches and trunk, the origin of which remains unknown. The Faux site has been classified nationally since 1932. It became a State Biological Reserve in 1981. Dwarf Beech (Fagus sylvatica Tortuosa Group). Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638626: Faux de Verzy - Marne - Dwarf Beech - Faux de Verzy - France - Tortuosa (Fagus Sylvatica var Tortuosa). This remarkable tree is a rare beech variety with contorted branches and trunk, the origin of which remains unknown. The Faux site has been classified nationally since 1932. It became a State Biological Reserve in 1981. Dwarf Beech (Fagus sylvatica Tortuosa Group). Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638650: Faux de Verzy - Marne - Dwarf Beech - Faux de Verzy - France - Tortuosa (Fagus Sylvatica var Tortuosa). This remarkable tree is a rare beech variety with contorted branches and trunk, the origin of which remains unknown. The Faux site has been classified nationally since 1932. It became a State Biological Reserve in 1981. Dwarf Beech (Fagus sylvatica Tortuosa Group). Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France / Bridgeman Images
PIX4652609: Radiotelescopes ALMA - The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) - Artwork - Artist's view of the European network of submilimetric antennas ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), one of the largest ground - based astronomy projects of the next decade, is a major new facility for world astronomy. ALMA will be comprised of a giant array of 12 - m submillimetre quality antennas, with baselines of several kilometers. An additional, compact array of 7 - m and 12 - m antennas is also foreseen. Construction of ALMA started in 2003 and will be completed in 2010. The ALMA project is an international collaboration between Europe, Japan and North America in cooperation with the Republic of Chile / Bridgeman Images
PIX4634276: Distance Scale in the Universe - Representation of the Big Bang to the Sun. Each graduation on the scale indicates the distance in light-years. The scale ranges from O light-years to the right, Earth's position, to 10 billion light-years to the left. The Big Bang is about 14 billion light years ago / Bridgeman Images