Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens dome, as seen from the remote camera at Brutus.
USGS Photograph taken on June 1, 2007.

Boeing B-47A

Boeing B-47A (NACA 150) shown on the ramp near NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station at South Base of Edwards Air Force Base, California, in 1953.

The B-47A Stratojet's wing is mounted high on the fuselage with a sweep back of 36 degrees and a span of 116 feet, with wing vortex generators installed. A two engine pod under each wing, and an additional engine pod at each wing tip using General Electric J-47-GE-23 turbojets. The airplane is fitted with a nose boom for measuring airspeed, altitude, angle-of-attack and angle-of-sideslip, and an optigraph for measuring the movements of target lights on the wing and tail.

Van Gogh's Starry Night

The Lyon Canyon Coal Mine

The Lyon Canyon Coal Mine. Lion Canyon. Meeker Quad. Rio Blanco County, Colorado. 1911.

Col. D.A. Woodbury, 4th Mich. Inf.

Col. D.A. Woodbury, 4th Mich. Inf.

Homecoming for STS-117

John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building

John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building located in New Orleans, LA. Exterior shield detail. Italian Renaissance Revival style, three story marble building built between 1909-1915. Architect: James Gamble Robers of architectural firm Hale and Rogers, 7/8/06

USS Russell

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Dec. 20, 2006) - Holiday lights shine from Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) as she sits moored pier side Naval Station Pearl Harbor. Ships currently moored in Pearl Harbor will participate in the 2006 Holiday Light Judging Competition. Regional commanders will tour the harbor and judge the ships based on innovation, brilliance, enthusiasm, energy conservation and overall categories.