Images Dated 31st January 2008

Full Moon

Full Moon. The Moon appears full when it is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun during its orbit, when it presents its full sunlit face to Earth. The lunar hemisphere that faces Earth has bright highlands and dark seas, or maria, which are lowland plains full of dark solidified lava. Several large, bright craters are also seen. At lower centre is Tycho, whose rays of ejected material cover much of the hemisphere. At centre left is bright Copernicus with the slightly fainter Kepler just left and below it. Photographed from California, USA, on 2 March 2007

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Domestic kitchen with blue and white tiled floor, window above sink

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An overloaded truck carries bales of rice stalks near Rosso

An overloaded truck carries bales of rice stalks near Rosso, as it heads for the capital Nouakchott, January 30, 2008. Picture taken January 30, 2008. REUTERS/Normand Blouin (MAURITANIA) - GM1DXDWCHFAA