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Cleaning the Atomium in Brussels

Julien Warnand / EPA

A team cleans a spill of fuel from an airplane from the Atomium, in Brussels, Belgium, on Sept. 24. The Atomium, built to celebrate the 1958 World's Fair in the Belgian capital, was recently restored to its shiny splendor, with the faded aluminum sheets on the nine balls fully replaced with hardy stainless steel. The structure represents a large-scale metal molecule and has nine balls with a 59-foot diameter.