User:Cmrc23/FavImages

The following are some of my favourite images from the commons

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  The Kodiak bear, a island dwelling example of the brown bear
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  A hybrid of the polar and grizzly bear
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  Harper's Ferry, the location of John Brown's raid
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  Downieville California
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  Fat bear 32 Chunk, who resides in Katmai National Park
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  7.92×33mm Kurz, obsolete intermediate rifle cartridge
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  LAVs cross a floating bridge during a military exercise
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  Inside a Leopard 2A6 in Ukraine. Image from armyinform.com.ua
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  Pristimantis elegans, a frog native to the Andes
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  A Renault racing truck
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  A house in Lostwithiel, Cornwall
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  The CZ P-10C, a polymer frame, semi-automatic, striker-fired pistol
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  Photo of the surface of Venus taken by the Venera 9 lander on 22 October 1975
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  A vacuum dry box, featuring an inert, or controlled atmosphere, for handling sensitive materials, and thick, explosion-proof portholes.
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  A concept of a possible Lunar Roving Vehicle, 1965
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  Space Shuttle Atlantis's three Block II RS-25D main engines at liftoff during the launch of STS-110.
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  Three Gorges Dam, a hydroelectric dam and the world's largest power station.
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  Earth and the International Space Station
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  Vipera Dinniki, a viper species native to the Caucasus Mountains
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  A butterfly valve used on Yagisawa Power Station
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  A demonstration of explosive decompression; 1atm pressure rapidly drops to that of the pressure at 60,000 feet
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  Salt Mines of Maras, Peru
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  View of a Steamer, Hudson River, Lona Island
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  Aulacomnium androgynum, the bud-headed groovemoss
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  Hmt Cotillion underway, between 1939 and 1945
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  Pallas's long-tongued bat
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  MiG-21F-13 monument in Tambov.
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  Mushrooms on a beech tree, next to moss and ivy
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  The Reuben sandwich
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  Cape Gannet breeding colony in Bird Island Nature Reserve near Lamberts Bay, Western Cape, South Africa
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  Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Fear. American children being tucked into bed by their parents while the Blitz rages across the Atlantic in the United Kingdom.
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  NASA research pilot Bill Dana takes a moment to watch NASA's NB-52B cruise overhead after a research flight in the HL-10. On the left, John Reeves can be seen at the cockpit of the lifting body.
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  USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of her nine 16″/50 and six 5″/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico (21°N 65°W / 21°N 65°W). Note concussion effects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil.
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  USS Annapolis (SSN 760) rests in the Arctic Ocean after surfacing through three feet of ice during Ice Exercise 2009 on March 21, 2009.
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  The Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 high speed train travelling at approximately 300 km/h through Himeji Station. This photo was captured with a line scan camera using strip photography.
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  A Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) ladder truck - no. 27
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  An automatic camera captures Capt. (later Col.) Joseph Kittinger just as he stepped from the balloon-supported Excelsior gondola on August 16, 1960, at an altitude of 102,800 feet (31,300 m).
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  A KC-46A Pegasus connects with an F-35 Lightning II in the skies over California Jan. 22, 2019.
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  NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted this dust devil with one of its Navigation Cameras around 11:35 a.m. local Mars time on Aug. 9, 2020
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  Mirror Assembly for the James Webb Space Telescope
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  The first photograph of a black hole. I remember hearing about how this would be published months in advance and i was so excited and i told everyone i know. Woke up really happy on the day it was released
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  Photo of the shadow of the moon over the arctic, during an eclipse
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  The fireball of the trinity test, 25ms after detonation
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  Mount St. Helens one day before eruption
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  EF4 tornado approaching Greenfield, Iowa on May 21, 2024.
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  Female Eurasian brown bear
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  A Cicada molting
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  Extreme closeup of butterfly wings
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  A Pineapple sea cucumber
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  Flash X-ray image sequence showing the converging compression shock wave formed by high explosive lenses. Video is from the Manhattan project
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  Picture of "The Gadget", the device used in the Trinity test
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  Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke wearing a Russian Orlan spacesuit during an EVA
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  Oleg Kononenko preparing for a spacewalk in an Orlan spacesuit
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  The shower on Skylab 2
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  The original earthrise photo