15 March 2013
Best science and technology pictures of the week
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- Fly-by path
- Comet C/2011 L4 Pan-Starrs (l) seen with a one-day old crescent moon over the Very Large Array radio telescope antenna dishes in New Mexico. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- Mass death
- Dead fish floating on the waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, beside the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- Memorial light
- Light show in Kesennuma City, as Japan commemorating the second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that claimed more than 18,000 lives. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- Eyes on the skies
- With 66 giant radio telescopes, the largest astronomical project in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, opened in Chile. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- Martian dig
- Members of Crew 125 EuroMoonMars B mission collect geologic samples in the Utah desert – members use its terrain to simulate working conditions on Mars. (Copyright: Reuters)
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- Path to recovery
- Young patients at a children’s hospital in Donetsk, Ukraine. Around 5,500 children with various types of cancer are registered in Ukraine. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- Techno taxi
- Hitachi today unveiled a robot vehicle, Ropits (Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System), which can pick up and drop off passengers autonomously. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- Here’s looking at you
- Night-vision technology on display at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- I, robot
- Humanoid robot Roboy on show at an exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of the University of Zurich’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Copyright: Reuters)
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- Bird protest
- Why did the duck cross the road? To take part in an anti-nuclear rally in Taiwan, of course. (Copyright: Getty Images)
The most amazing pictures from the past seven days – featuring comets, the world’s largest astronomical project and a lagoon of death.
More stunning image galleries:
Biblical swarms, reaching out into space, and jumping rats
Deep sea beauty, giant drilling machines and hypnotic space telescopes
Stunning views of Earth and up close and personal with a human parasite
Russian meteor, extreme weather and a turtle with artificial fins
Cosmic storms, the first bionic man and how to clean a oil-covered bird
Birth of stars, life at sub-zero temperatures and micro-living in the city
Pollution from space, active volcanoes and a robot restaurant
Amazing Lego sculptures, freakish weather… and Big Bird
Gruesome tools, environmental disasters and intimate views from space.
Christmas treats and the end of the world
Bathing snow monkeys, a tweeting pope and elephant dung coffee.
Architectural giants and a new way of seeing the Moon
Red pandas, Saturn and Nature’s unstoppable forces
The world's largest bloom, the world's largest aquarium and the world's fastest sailing boat
Venice under water, a total eclipse and a pedestrian-avoiding car
Space shuttle, Baumgartner and Hurricane Sandy
The best of 2012 galleries:
A year in space
The year in technology
A year of discovery
People of the year
The year in weather
The year in wildlife
Weird and wonderful
Places
New frontiers
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