PIX4671779: Corona around the Moon - Corona around the Moon - When the light of the Moon passes through thin clouds of water droplets, it can create a moon crown of color. In meteorology, a lunar corona is produced by the diffraction of light from the Moon by small water droplets in a cloud / Bridgeman Images
PIX4637219: Lactee route - Pointe du Raz - Milky Way - Pointe du Raz - The Great Bear is almost entirely masked by the semaphore tower at Pointe du Raz. The “Two Guards” located on the right of the tower point towards the Polar Star, vertical of the antenna. Higher, our eye cuts the lactee path near the zenith. As we descend towards the southern horizon, we can see the Great Galaxy of Andromede and that of the Triangle. Brittany, 27 September 2008. The Big Dipper is almost completely masked by the tower of the semaphore. Its two stars on the right are pointing towards the star Polaris, at the vertical of the antenna. Higher, our eye cross the Milky Way near the zenith. Then, descending towards the South, we can see the Great Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy. Pointe du Raz, Brittany, 27 September 2008 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4672450: Clouds - Alaska - seen by Landsat 7 06/2000 - Cloud formation over the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Color variations are explained by the difference in temperature and the size of the water droplets that make up these clouds. Image obtained by satellite Landsat - 7 on 16 June 2000 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4672475: Bering Glacier, Alaska - Bering Glacier in Alaska - The Bering Glacier is the largest glacier in North America. Since 1900, the glacier front has receded 12 km. Image obtained by Landsat-7 satellite on 29 September 2002. Bering Glacier currently terminates in Vitus Lake south of Alaska's Wrangell - St. Elias National Park, about 10 km from the Gulf of Alaska. Combined with the Bagley Icefield, where the snow that feeds the glacier accumulates, the Bering is the largest glacier in North America. Warmer temperatures and changes in precipitation over the past century have thinned the Bering Glacier by several hundred meters. Since 1900 the terminus has retreated as much as 12 km. Most of the glaciers along the Alaskan coast are retreating along with the Bering Glacier. This true - color image of the Bering Glacier terminus was acquired on September 29, 2002, by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM +) instrument aboard the USGS/NASA Landsat - 7 satellite / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605155: Launch of the Ares 1 - X - Ares 1 - X rocket launch - Launch of the Ares 1 - X rocket of the American Constellation program, 28 October 2009. The first stage ignites on Nasa's Ares I - X test rocket at Launch Pad 39B at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Oct. 28. The rocket produces 2.96 million pounds of thrust at liftoff and reaches a speed of 100 mph in eight seconds. This was the first launch from Kennedy's pads of a vehicle other than the space shuttle since the Apollo Program's Saturn rockets were retired. The parts used to make the Ares I - X booster flew on 30 different shuttle missions ranging from STS - 29 in 1989 to STS - 106 in 2000. The data returned from more than 700 sensors throughout the rocket will be used to refine the design of future launch vehicles and bring NASA one step closer to reaching its exploration goals / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605557: Mariner 8 - 9 - The Mariner 8 and Mariner 9 probes are two identical probes launched on 8 May 1971 and 30 May 1971 respectively to Mars. The launch of Mariner 8 was a failure, but Mariner 9 successfully entered orbit around Mars on November 14, 1971, becoming the first space probe in orbit around a planet. Mariner 9 ceased to communicate on 27 October 1972 / Bridgeman Images