PIX4635211: Venus: impact crateres in Lavinia Planitia seen by the Magellan probe - The Howe crater (at the bottom center of the picture) is 37 km in diameter. The Danilova crater (above, on the left) is 47 km in diameter; to its right is the Aglaonice crater, which measures 62 km in diameter. These crateres are located north of Lavinia Planitia / Bridgeman Images
PIX4636623: Lactee and Summer Triangle - Lactee and Summer Triangle - View of the stars Deneb (bottom left near the nebula North America), in the Swan, Vega (center up), in the Lyre, and Altair (all right, near the middle of the picture) in the Eagle. These three stars form the asterism of the Summer Triangle / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639469: Mission habitee vers Mars-Vue d'artiste - Manned mission to Mars - Artist view - Fusee a nuclear propulsion. A nuclear thermal rocket fires upon arrival in the vicinity of Mars to insert the transfer vehicle into orbit. Nuclear propulsion can shorten interplanetary trip times and can reduce the mass launched from Earth. As the primary transfer propulsion system, the spaecraft's reactor would remain inactive until departure from Earth orbit / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639606: Mission to Phobos - Phobos mission ready for departure - A spaceship assemblies in Earth orbit is ready to depart to Phobos, one of Mars's satellites. This ship consists of several fuel tanks and an Orion-type space capsule with three astronauts on board. No landing gear is required because the mass of Phobos is so low that this satellite can be approached by astronauts in extravehicular exit. A complete rocket system for delivering a crew of three to Mars' moon Phobos and returning them to the Earth. The vast bulk of the rocket is propellant divided into stages that are each released in turn as the mission progresses. On the far right are the crew accomodations and an attached Orion class command module. No dedicated lander is required as Phobos' mass is so low that it could be easily approached by the command module and explored by suited astrogeologists in Manned Maneuvering Units (MMUS) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639858: Astronaut on Mars - Illustration - Astronaut on Mars - Illustration - An astronaut crowds the soil of March. Artist's view. In some distant future, astronauts amble about on Mars. The hardware designs are based on the Lunar spacecraft being imagined by NASA, Bergeron, Joe / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639664: Mission to Phobos - Phobos mission rocket brakes for Mars orbit - After seven months of travel, the spaceship en route to Phobos brakes to orbit around Mars. After seven months traveling from Earth to Mars the Phobos mission rocket ignites its next propellant stage in order to slow down enough to enter an orbit around Mars that will bring it to within a few miles of Phobos / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639759: From Earth to Moon, then March -Illustration - Aurora program - Illustration - Aurora Programme is part of Europe's strategy for space, endorsed by the European Union Council of Research and the ESA Council in 2001. The objective of the Aurora is first to formulate and then to implement a European long-term plan for the robotic and human exploration of solar system, with Mars, the Moon and the asteroids as the most likely targets / Bridgeman Images
PIX4635695: South Hemisphere - This is a long exposure (about an hour) made with an ordinary camera and colour film. It shows a crowded and dusty stretch of the southern Milky Way. The Galactic plane runs roughly NE to SW across the middle of the picture, which is about 40 degrees across. At the centre-left lies the direction of the nucleus of our Galaxy, unseen behind dense clouds of dust: The Lactee Way in the Scorpion - Southern Milky Way / Bridgeman Images
PIX4635859: Lactee and Jupiter - Milky Way with Jupiter - The Lactee Way and the brilliant Jupiter Planet are reflected in the waters of Laguna Cejar. Atacama Desert, Chile. June 2008. Milky way with bright planet Jupiter are reflecting in the water of Laguna Cejar. Atacama desert, Chile, June 2008 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637303: Montagu busard. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Ash coloured falcon, Falco cineraceus, Montague's harrier, Circus cineraceus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images