Fireworks light up the sky above the Pacific Ocean on New Year’s Eve 2006. Actually, the red streak was a flare fired during a safety drill. Crew members on the research vessel Atlantis instructed the science party in how to use the flares for sending a distress signal. (Photo by Patrick Ryan Jackson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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