Images Dated 18th April 2005

The guided missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG-89), test fires the MK-32 Mod-15 Torpedo

Persian Gulf, April 18, 2005 a?? The guided missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG-89), test fires the MK-32 Mod-15 Torpedo Launcher. The torpedo launcher holds three MK-46 Mod 5A torpedoes and is used to destroy enemy submarines or incoming torpedoes fired at the ship. Mustin is currently deployed with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group providing Maritime Security Operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom

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HST WFPC2 image of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. Visible light image of the multiple cores of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, made by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera-2 of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in December 1993. The image shows about 20 discrete cores, arranged in a line. Astronomers refer to this as the string of pearls'. broken up by tidal forces from Jupiter in July 1992, and will hit the planet in July 1994. Although the impacts will not be visible from Earth, it is expected that the collisions will have a dramatic effect on Jupiter's banded atmosphere

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Black-tip / Blacktip Reef SHARKS - In water so shallow they stir up the sand, these baby sharks are safe from larger predators which can include their parents

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Black-tip / Blacktip Reef SHARKS - In water so shallow they stir up the sand, these baby sharks are safe from larger predators which can include their parents.
The Blue Lagoon, French Polynesia, Indo-pacific
Carcharhinus melanopterus
Valerie & Ron Taylor
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