Images Dated 18th January 2010

Martian sand dunes, satellite image

Martian sand dunes. Coloured satellite image of north polar sand dunes blown into crescent shapes by the wind. The dunes are covered by carbon dioxide frost except dark-coloured patches where the carbon dioxide has sublimated (turned from solid directly to gas) and exposed the basaltic sand beneath. Image obtained by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on 27th January 2008. The width of this image is roughly 1.3 kilometres across

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One-year-old polar bear Ikor plays at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo

One-year-old polar bear Ikor plays at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, northern Japan, January 18, 2010. The male cubs were born on December 9, 2008. REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN - Tags: ANIMALS) - GM1E61I1HIR01

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Pallets of relief supplies exit a C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft over Haiti

January 18, 2010 - Forty pallets of relief supplies exit a C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft over Haiti. Joint Task Force-Haiti secured the area where the supplies were delivered

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