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Photos of the Week: Mars Rover, Green Fur, Icicle Tunnel
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Stefan Luitz of Germany is transported back up to the start gate on a tracked ATV during the FIS World Ski Championships Team Parallel Event on February 17, 2021, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. #
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A dog wearing a pink fur coat and a white bag around its neck is seen in front of Spring Studios during New York Fashion Week on February 16, 2021, in New York City. #
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People feed swans on the bank of a water reservoir of the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant near the town of Ostroh, Ukraine, on February 16, 2021. The reservoir, which has turned into a local tourist spot, attracts dozens of swans every winter as it never freezes over, because of the warm waters discharged from the plant. #
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Icicles hang from the roof of the Hopton Tunnel on the High Peak Trail in Derbyshire on February 12, 2021, in Matlock, England. Hopton Tunnel is a former railway tunnel that was closed in 1967, and is now part of the High Peak walking and cycling trail. #
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A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Progress MS-16 cargo spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on February 15, 2021. #
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Smoke rises from chimneys among the rooftops of central Prague during sunrise on February 12, 2021, as the temperature dropped to 17 degrees Celsius below zero in the Czech capital. #
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Michael Vogt, Silvio Weber, Sandro Michael, and Andreas Haas of Switzerland compete in their second run during the IBSF World Championships 2021 Altenberg 4-Man Bobsleigh competition at the DKB Eiskanal Altenberg on February 13, 2021, in Altenberg, Germany. #
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A stray dog with blue-green fur, stained by an unknown substance, walks along a road on February 18, 2021, in Podolsk, 37 km from the center of Moscow, Russia. A pack of stray dogs with teal-colored fur were found earlier this month near an abandoned chemical plant in Dzerzhinsk, in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia. #
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Alice Dearing of Great Britain competes in the Women's 800 m Freestyle on day three of the Manchester International Swimming Meet 2021 at the Manchester Aquatics Center on February 14, 2021, in Manchester, England. #
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Icicles hang off the State Highway 195 sign on February 18, 2021, in Killeen, Texas. A winter storm brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas as storms have swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation. #
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Drivers Kyle Busch, Austin Cindric, and Joey Logano are involved in an on-track incident during the NASCAR Cup Series 63rd Annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 14, 2021, in Daytona Beach, Florida. #
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Anilson Costa, a reveler of the annual block party "Céu na Terra," walks along the Santa Teresa neighborhood where the block party is usually celebrated, after Carnival celebrations were canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 12, 2021. #
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Jennifer Brady of the U.S. is seen in action during her semifinal match against the Czech Republic's Karolina Muchova at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia, on February 18, 2021 #
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Norway's Johannes Dale (left) competes during the Men's 12.5 km Pursuit event at the IBU Biathlon World Championships in Pokljuka, Slovenia, on February 14, 2021. #
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Nurses administer doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to more than 80 seniors at a newly opened vaccination hub at Rome's Parco Della Musica Auditorium on February 15, 2021, in Rome, Italy. #
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A Siberian husky awaits feeding after a training session in Huy, Germany, on February 11, 2021. Musher Kerstin Galisch takes care of a pack of 15 Siberian-husky sled dogs that live in and around a former, rebuilt feedlot-premises administration building. #
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Federation Square in Melbourne is quiet and empty, except for a few seagulls, during a "circuit breaker" lockdown imposed suddenly by the Victorian government. This was due to increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in northwestern Melbourne. #
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Bianca Toniolo, 3, smiles as she has a video call with her mother, Chiara Zuddas, 32, who is self-isolating in a bedroom after having contact with someone with the coronavirus, in this picture taken by Bianca's father, who is in quarantine at home with his family in San Fiorano, Italy. #
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A coach stands in a ray of light during the inspection of the ski trail prior to the start of the Women's Downhill, on February 13, 2021, during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the Italian Alps. #
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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of the area in front of it using its onboard front left hazard-avoidance camera just after landing on Mars on February 18, 2021. The rover successfully touched down after more than 200 days of traveling through space, having launched from Earth in July 2020. #
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