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ROY-517 Mute Swans - Pair in courtship behaviour - Back-lit early morning mist rising from the water

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Mute Swans - Pair in courtship behaviour, necks creating heart shape
Back-lit early morning mist rising from the water - Cleveland
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Roy Glen
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Rainbow over the dishes of the VLA radio telescope

Double rainbow over dishes of the Very Large Array(VLA) radio telescope at Socorro, New Mexico. TheVLA is the world's largest radio telescope array, consisting of 27 dish aerials each 25 metres indiameter which can move to various positions alongthe arms of a Y-shaped railway network. The wholearray effectively forms a giant radio dish 27 kmin diameter. At its shortest observing wavelengthof 1.3 cm, it can resolve details 0.13 arcsecondsin scale - 10 times better than any Earth-basedoptical telescope

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Loading air ambulance

Loading air ambulance. Patient being loaded into an air ambulance by paramedics. An air ambulance is a helicopter equipped with life-support systems and staff for emergency medical cases. It provides a rapid response to casualties in inaccessible locations, as it can perform vertical take-offs and landings in confined spaces. This is the Essex Air Ambulance. It serves the county of Essex in England. The helicopter is an EC135 Eurocopter, and entered service in 2003

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