Ocean Gallery

Us-Space-Apollo XII

The spacecraft contaning Apollo 12 astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr., commander, Richard F. Gordon, command module pilot, and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot parachutes safely into the Pacific Ocean, on November 24, 1969, approximately 350 nautical miles southeast of Samoa, at the completion of their Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. An Apollo / Saturn V space vehicle launched them from the Kennedy Space Center, on November 14, 1969, on the Apollo 12 United States second manned lunar landing mission. AFP PHOTO NASA / AFP PHOTO / NASA

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Australia-Conservation-Environment-Reef

This photo shows an aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of the Whitsunday Islands, along the central coast of Queensland. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park encompasses about 99 percent of the World Heritage-listed natural wonder, with the additional one percent outside the marine park but within the heritage-listed area -- about 3, 600 square kilometres (1, 390 square miles) -- being managed by the Queensland state government and includes most islands and ports, as well as lakes and other waterways. AFP PHOTO / SARAH LAI / AFP PHOTO / Sarah Lai

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Us-San Francisco-Tourism

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. The Golden Gate is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening into San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. It connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County as part of US Highway 101 and California State Highway 1. The largest suspension bridge in the world when it was completed in 1937, it has become an internationally recognized symbol of San Francisco and America. It is currently the second longest suspension bridge in the United States after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City. / AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS

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