Images Dated 16th March 2005

Europe, Italy, Burano. Colorful houses reflecting on canal

Europe, Italy, Burano. Colorful houses reflecting on canal. Credit as: Wendy Kaveny / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont

© Wendy Kaveney / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont.com

Abstract, Boat, Burano, Canal, Colorful, Design, Europe, House, Italy, Jaynes Gallery, Pattern, Reflection, Ripple, Water, Wendy Kaveney

Artwork of the Ariane 5 launcher with 2 satellites

Ariane 5 rocket. Artwork showing a cut-away view of the European Ariane 5 launcher. Ariane 5 consists of a large first stage (lower 2/3rds of the central vehicle) flanked by two solid rocket boosters, with a smaller second stage (top 1/3rd). Inside the second stage can be seen a pay- load of two satellites. Most of the first stage is taken up by the vast liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks, which feed the single Vulcain motor (bottom left). The second stage is powered by a DASA engine which uses storable propellants (dinitrogen tetroxide and monomethyl hydrazine). Ariane 5 may be used to launch satellites or a shuttle into orbit or for interplanetary missions

© DAVID DUCROS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

North-eastern Europe

North-eastern Europe. True-colour satellite image of north-eastern Europe. North is at top. Water is blue, vegetation is green and snow is white. The southern tips of Norway (upper left) and Sweden (upper centre) lie to the north of the Jutland (Jylland) Peninsula that forms the main part of Denmark. Germany is to the south of Denmark, with Poland at lower right and the low countries (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) at lower left. Part of Estonia is seen to the north of Latvia at top right. The Baltic Sea, an almost totally enclosed body of water, is at upper right, while the North Sea is at top left

© PLANETOBSERVER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY