PIX4606540: Mars Exploration Rover - Artist's View - Mars Exploration Rover - Artist's View - Mars Exploration Rover is a Martian exploration mission composed of two probes housing two identical rovers, Spirit and Opportunity MER - A, the Spirit robot launched on June 10, 2003, landed on January 3, 2004 in the Gusev crater. MER - B, the Opportunity robot launched on July 8, 2003, landed on January 24, 2004 on Meridiani Planum / Bridgeman Images
OMG4606511: Place Vendome in Paris. Today's square dates back to 1699 and was designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart (1646-1708). And it was only with the piercing of the Rue de la Paix that the Vendome Column was erected in 1806 by Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) to the glory of the victors of Austerlitz (1805). / Bridgeman Images
LRI4607233: Roger delivrant Angelique Angelique (Angelica) is liberated by Roger (Ruggero, Ruggiero) rides on a hippoclaw - Illustration of the X Song of “” Furious Roland” (Orlando furioso) by Ludovic Ariosto (Arioste) - Painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) 1841 Dim 54x46 cm Montauban, Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609326: Spiral galaxy M33 in the Triangle - Spiral galaxy M33 in Triangulum - M33, (NGC 598), the galaxy of the Triangle, is located about 2 million years ago - light from Earth. It belongs to the local group, just like our galaxy or Andromede galaxy. Also known as M33 or NGC 598, the Triangulum Galaxy is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and our galaxy, the Milky Way. M33 is over thirty thousand light - years across, and more than two million light - years away. Hot, massive stars which recently formed in M33 give the galaxy its bluish color. The reddish areas are nebulae in the galaxy in which stars are rapidly forming / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603558: ATV joins the international space station - Artist view - The ATV approaching ISS - Artist view - Artist view of the European automatic cargo ATV approaching the international space station (ISS). Artist's impression of the Automated Transfer Vehicle approaching the International Space Station (ISS) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603190: Johannes Kepler ATV - The Johannes Kepler automatic module seen after its separation from the International Space Station (ISS). The ATV Johannes Kepler, intended to supply the station with various equipment, was removed from the station on 20 June 2011. Backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, European Space Agency's (ESA) “Johannes Kepler” Automated Transfer Vehicle - 2 (ATV - 2) begins its relative separation from the International Space Station. The ATV - 2 undocked from the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 10:46 a.m. (EDT) on June 20, 2011 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603534: The Orion MPVC module - Artist view - Artist view of the module lives Orion. This module is intended to take a crew to the Moon where asteroides will also be used to commute with the space station. An artist's impression of the Orion spacecraft with ESA's service module. The module sits directly below Orion's crew capsule and provides propulsion, power, thermal control, and water and air for four astronauts. The solar array spans 19 m and provides enough to power two households. A little over 5 m in diameter and 4 m high, it weighs 13.5 tons. The 8.6 tons of propellant will power one main engine and 32 smaller thrusters / Bridgeman Images
PIX4601922: International Space Station: Astronaut Exit - The International Space Station: EVA Astronaut - Astronaut Robert L. Behnken prepares the installation of the new articule arm of the international space station, the Dextre robot. 3rd extravehicular exit, 17 - 18 March 2008. 17/18 March 2008 - Astronaut Robert L. Behnken, STS - 123 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third scheduled session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the 6 - hour, 53 - minute spacewalk, Behnken and Rick Linnehan (out of frame), mission specialist, installed a spare - parts platform and tool - handling assembly for Dextre, also known as the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator (SPDM). Among other tasks, they also checked out and calibrated DEXT's end effector and attached critical spare parts to an external stowage platform. The new robotic system is scheduled to be activated on a power and data grapple fixture located on the Destiny laboratory on flight day nine. The blackness of space and Earth's horizon provide the backdrop for the scene / Bridgeman Images
TEC4601065: La Fontaine Stravinski (Stravinsky), Place Stravinsky, Paris 4th arrondissement. Inaugural in March 1983, the fountain in tribute to Igor Stravinsky is composed of aluminum and steel sculptures painted in black and electric motors by Jean Tinguely (1925-1991). The figures of Niki de Saint-Phalle (Saint Phalle) (1930-2002) are made of polyester. View of the “Fire Bird”. Photography 12/04/83., Tinguely, Jean (1925-1991) & Saint-Phalle, Niki de (1930-2002) / Bridgeman Images