Images Dated 25th February 2005

Harrier GR7s and Sea Harrier FA2s, are shown waiting on the deck of HMS Invincible at sunset

Harrier GR7s and Sea Harrier FA2s, are shown waiting on the deck of HMS Invincible at sunset, during Marstrike 05.
The long-planned series of exercises, entitled Marstrike 05, were designed to demonstrate Britain's ability to deploy, operate and sustain a maritime strike force and to reinforce the Government's commitment to the stability and security of the Mediterranean and Gulf regions.
Marstrike 05s main objective was to develop the operational capability of the participating units - in particular HMS Invincible strike role conducted with her tailored air group. Major focus of the deployment was Exercise Magic Carpet, a joint and combined exercise based on Oman with participation by the Omani, US and French forces.
This image was submitted as part of the Peregrine 06 Photographic Competition

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Pistil of a cinquefoil flower, SEM

Pistil of a flower. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of part of the pistil of a cinquefoil flower (Potentilla sp.). The pistil is the female reproductive part of a flower, comprising one or more carpels. Each carpel is made up of a stigma (tip, dark orange) borne on a style (shaft, light orange). Pollen, the male sex cells of a flowering plant, lands on the stigma and burrows down through the style to reach the ovary at the style's base. It then fertilises the ovum there, forming a seed

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Miners lettuce

ROG-11851
Miner's lettuce
California, USA
Claytonia perfoliata
Also known as: Winter Purslane, Spring Beauty or Indian lettuce
Syn. Montia perfoliata
Named Miner's lettuce after the gold rush miners who ate it to get their vitamin C to prevent scurvy
Bob Gibbons
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