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Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. American oil rig workers contracted by the Kuwaiti government attempt to plug and stop oil wells burning out of contr...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. An abandoned Iraqi T-55 tank sits in the middle of a lake of spilling crude oil and surrounded by burning oil fields...

Kuwait; March, 1991. Work crews with a special barge attempt to remove crude oil which was spilled into the Persian Gulf during the 1991 Gulf War oil...

Kuwait; March, 1991. Pumps remove crude oil from areas contaminated during the 1991 Gulf War oil spill along the coastal areas of Kuwait. On January 2...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. An abandoned Iraqi T-55 tank sits in the middle of a lake of spilling crude oil and surrounded by burning oil fields...

Kuwait; March, 1991. Pumps remove crude oil from areas contaminated during the 1991 Gulf War oil spill along the coastal areas of Kuwait. On January 2...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. American oil rig workers contracted by the Kuwaiti government attempt to plug and stop oil wells burning out of contr...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil well fires in the Kuwaiti desert that were burning out of control during the 1991 Gulf War helped create the stra...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil well fires in the Kuwaiti desert that were burning out of control during the 1991 Gulf War helped create the stra...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. American oil rig workers contracted by the Kuwaiti government attempt to plug and stop oil wells burning out of contr...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. An American tank (M109 Paladin 155mm self propelled tank) passes through the burning oil fields on the outskirts of K...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

Kuwait City, Kuwait; March 1991. Oil wells burning out of control in the Al-Ahmadi oil fields located on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The oil fields...

August, 1986; Manhattan, New York. A Crack Cocaine addict inhales smoke from a crack pipe in a city park in the Washington Heights section of Manhatta...

August, 1986; Manhattan, New York. A Crack Cocaine addict inhales smoke from a crack pipe in a city park in the Washington Heights section of Manhatta...

August, 1986; Manhattan, New York. Plastic vials used to package and sell Crack Cocaine. Crack Cocaine is a freebase form of Cocaine (methylbenzoylecg...

August, 1986; Manhattan, New York. A man addicted to Crack Cocaine displays his crack pipe and a vial containing Crack Cocaine which he is about to sm...

August, 1986; Manhattan, New York. Plastic vials used to sell Crack Cocaine. Crack Cocaine is a freebase form of Cocaine (methylbenzoylecgonine). Crac...

August, 1986;Manhattan, New York. Vials used to sell the drug known as Crack Cocaine. Crack Cocaine is a freebase form of Cocaine (methylbenzoylecgoni...

August, 1986; Manhattan, New York. A man displays what are Crack vials in a city park in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. Crack Cocaine is...

Anise (Pimpinella anisum), also knowns as aniseed or anis, is a herb in the Apiaceae family. Some uses of aniseed include aromatherapy, medicine, and...

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) Seeds. Fennel is an herb with both culinary and medical uses, also a main ingredient in absinthe.

Researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin install weather and global positioning system (GPS) instruments on iceberg...

The Coast Guard cutter Healy at work in Antarctica. The Healy is the newest and most technologically-advanced U.S. icebreaker. The Healy is designed t...

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The brown building in the foreground is the new station under construction, due for completion in 2007. The top of...

Diver re-emerges from the frigid waters of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, after roughly 30 minutes underwater. They members of a research team from the Un...

New Telescope for Long-term Studies. The SOLIS facility atop it's observing tower on Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. The Synoptic Optical L...

Sunlight floods through the dome aperture of the Evans Solar Facility at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Solar Observatory (NSO) in S...

Sunlight scattered by the atmosphere forms a halo around the objective end of the Optical Solar Patrol Network (OSPAN), a joint effort between the U.S...

Solar Adaptive Optics Steve Hegwer, technical support manager of the Dunn Solar Telescope at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Solar Ob...

Blurred and sharpened images demonstrate the clarity added by high-order adaptive optics (AO) of the Dunn Solar Telescope at the National Science Foun...

The mirror at center right doesn't look like an ironing board, but that's its basic role in a new high-order adaptive optics system that cancels most...

Scientists and observers monitor IBIS--the Interferometric Bidirectional Imaging Spectrometer--as it records the transit of Mercury across the face of...

West Antarctic Ice Sheet Drilling Scientist from the University of New Hampshire (right) bags an ice core at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divid...

A person stands underneath a natural arch in a glacier at Norsel Point, Anvers Island, Antarctica.

The assistant curator at the National Ice Core Lab (NICL) in Littleton, Colo., holds up a piece of ice taken from above Lake Vostok, a remote region o...

Someday a robot like Lemur IIb could climb the cliffs of Mars or explore small bodies like asteroids. In 2007, the Phoenix Lander will be sent to the...

Lemur IIa can use a variety of tools to perform assembly operations. In this image it is using its driver and flashlight tools. The assembly, inspecti...