PIX4605942: Juno Probe - Artist's View - Juno Artist's Rendering - Artist's View of Juno Probe in orbit around Jupiter. Launch in 2011, the Juno probe will reach Jupiter in 2016. Launching from Earth in 2011, the Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit. Juno will repeatedly dive between the planet and its intense belts of charged particle radiation, coming only 5,000 kilometers (about 3,000 miles) from the cloud tops at closest approach. Juno's primary goal is to improve our understanding of Jupiter's formation and evolution. The spacecraft will spend a year investigating the planet's origins, interior structure, deep atmosphere and magnetosphere. Juno's study of Jupiter will help us to understand the history of our own solar system and provide new insight into how planetary systems form and develop in our galaxy and beyond / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606235: Launch of the Venus Express Probe - Artist's View - Launch of Venus Express spacecraft - Artwork - The European Venus Express probe was launched on 9 November 2005 by a Soyuz - Fregat rocket and orbit around Venus on 11 April 2006. The european spacecraft Venus Express has been launched from Baikonur in november 2005 by a Soyuz - Fregat rocket and reaches the planet Venus on april 11 2006 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606463: The probe Mars 96 - Artist view - Mars 96 spacecraft - Artist view - Landing sequence of a mini - station. In addition to its observations in Martian orbit, this probe was to launch two stations and two penetrators on Martian soil. Launched in 1996, the probe could not leave Earth orbit and disintegrate. Mini - landing sequence stations. Artwork showing the mission sequence of soviet March 96 spacecraft. Two surface stations and two penetrators should be deployed on the martian surface. Launched in 1996, a rocket failure happened and the probe was desintegrated in the Earth atmosphere / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638402: Killer Whale hitting the beach to hunt - Orcs (Orcinus Orca) who live in groups have developed many hunting techniques. Perhaps one of the most extraordinary is the voluntary failure to catch young sea lions. This technique is used by the group of Mel (a male 9m) in peninsule Valdes. An Orca is coming on land to hunt sea lions. Valdes Peninsula, Argentina / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638581: 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
PIX4638590: 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
PIX4638679: Vines of the Old College of Jesuites - Reims - Three hundred years old vines - Reims - Three hundred years old vines - Reims - Three feet of three hundred hundred years old vines among the oldest vineyards in France (330 years old), classified as historical monuments. Scriptures testify to their presence in 1678. Vines among the oldest in France - Ancien College des Jesuites - Reims, Champagne-Ardenne / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638687: Vines of the Old College of Jesuites - Reims - Three hundred years old vines - Reims - Three hundred years old vines - Reims - Three feet of three hundred hundred years old vines among the oldest vineyards in France (330 years old), classified as historical monuments. Scriptures testify to their presence in 1678. Vines among the oldest in France - Ancien College des Jesuites - Reims, Champagne-Ardenne / Bridgeman Images
PIX4634813: Uranus and its satellite Puck - Illustration - Uranus and Puck - Illustration - Planet Uranus with its Puck satellite in the foreground. On the right, closer to the planet, is the Belinda satellite. Even closer to Uranus, on the left, the Portia satellite. On Uranus, a giant storm is represented. This is how Uranus and its tiny satellite Puck might look from a position in space about a thousand miles above and beyond Puck itself. With a diameter of about 100 miles, Puck is the largest and outermost of the ten known “” inner”” satellites that orbit Uranus within a radius of 51 thousand miles. Further in toward Uranus on the right is Belinda, a satellite that is about 40 miles in diameter. Even closer to Uranus on the far left is the 60 - mile - diameter satellite Portia. On Uranus itself can be seen a giant, cyclonic storm that's almost as big as the Earth / Bridgeman Images
PIX4614940: Mars seen by the Hubble Space Telescope - 1997 - Images obtained on March 30, 1997. Between each image, Mars rotated 90 degrees. At the top left, the image is centered on Ares Vallis, the or Mars Pathfinder landed on July 4, 1997. At the top right you can see Valles Marineris and the volcanoes of Tharsis. Lower left, Cerberus and Elysium region, lower right, Syris Major / Bridgeman Images
PIX4614997: Mars seen by the Hubble Space Telescope - 2016 - Mars in opposition 2016 - Image obtained on 12 May 2016 a few days before the opposition of Mars when the planet was only 80 million km away from Earth. This image shows planet Mars, as it was observed shortly before opposition in 2016, taken when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth on May 12, 2016. by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The photo reveals details as small as 20 miles to 30 miles across. This observation was made just a few days before March opposition on May 22, when the sun and Mars will be on exact opposite sides of Earth. Mars also will be 47.4 million miles from Earth. On May 30, Mars will be the closest it has been to Earth in 11 years, at a distance of 46.8 million miles. Some prominent features of the planet are clearly visible: the ancient and inactive shield volcano Syrtis Major; the bright and oval Hellas Planitia basin; the heavily eroded Arabia Terra in the centre of the image; the dark features of Sinus Sabaeous and Sinus Meridiani along the equator; and the small southern polar cap / Bridgeman Images
PIX4615363: Gullies on Mars - Gullies along a wall of an impact crater located in the large Newton impact crater. These ravines are thought to indicate the presence of liquid water in the Martian basement. Mosaic of false-coloured images obtained by the Mars Global Surveyor probe from August 2001 to January 2002 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4615439: March - Volcanos Ceraunius Tholus and Uranius Tholus - Mars - Volcanos Ceraunius Tholus and Uranius Tholus - Image obtained by the Mars Global Surveyor probe in March 2002. This image shows the volcanoes Ceraunius Tholus (bottom) and Uranius Tholus (top). The presence of impact crateres on these volcanoes indicates that these volcanoes are old. The crater at the top of Ceraunius Tholus is about 25 km in diameter. Acquired in March 2002, this Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera wide angle view shows the martian volcanoes, Ceraunius Tholus (lower) and Uranius Tholus (upper). The presence of impact craters on these volcanoes, particularly on Uranius Tholus; indicates that they are quite ancient and are not active today. The light - toned area on the southeastern face (towards lower right) of Ceraunius Tholus is a remnant of a once more extensive deposit of dust from the global dust storm events that occurred in 2001. The crater at the summit of Ceraunius Tholus is about 25 km (15.5 mi) across. Sunlight illuminates the scene from the lower left / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639041: Back to the Moon: Arrival in Lunar Orbit - Artist's View - The Orion and Altair spacecrafts in lunar orbit - Lunar Program Constellation. The module resides Orion docks to the Altair planing module in orbit around the Moon. Orion should be able to take a crew of astronauts to the Moon in 2020. The Orion manned spacecraft, docked to the lunar module Altair, 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
PIX4639123: Space exploration: Soyuz spacecraft - Artist's view - Soyuz deep space explorer over the Moon - A spaceship inhabits Soyuz TMA-M increases by a housing module for three astronauts and a rocket top floor, joins the Moon. A manned Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft docked with a three-person extended stay module soars over the Moon with the aid of a Russian-made upper stage booster rocket. The upper stage booster is on the left with the Soyuz spacecraft on the right and the extended stay module in the middle of the assembly / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639287: Lunar vehicle test. Program constellation - Lunar vehicle test. Constellation program - Lunar vehicle test as part of the Nasa constellation program that is expected to take men to the Moon around 2020. Here, a prototype of a pressurized vehicle (Lunar Electric Rover) that would allow future astronauts to travel long distances. For three days, astronaut Michael Gernhardt and geologist Brent Garry lived independently in the real conditions of exit to the Moon. Brent Garry gets out of the vehicle by putting on a pressurized suit. October 2008, Arizona, USA. During tests conducted for NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) at Black Point Lava Flow in Arizona, engineers, geologists and astronauts gathered to test two configurations of NASA's newest lunar rover prototype. The pressurized version, seen here and called the Lunar Electric Rover, includes a suitport that would allow crew members to climb in and out of spacesuits quickly for moonwalks. Here, Smithsonian Institution geologist Brent Garry donates his suit / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639316: Robonaut2, the Next Generation Dexterous Robonaut 2, designed by Nasa and General Motors, is a humanoid robot designed to assist humans on Earth and in space. Robonaut2 - or R2 for short - is the next generation dexterous robot, developed through a Space Act Agreement by NASA and General Motors. It is faster, more dexterous and more technologically advanced than its predecessors and able to use its hands to do work beyond the scope of previously introduced humanoid robots. Robonauts are designed to use the same tools as humans, which allows them to work safely side-by-side humans on Earth and in space / Bridgeman Images