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Straight country road between vineyards and orchards leading to a small village, below steep limestone mountains wrapped in puffy white clouds under a bright blue sky. — ° In the Lands of Cotton Candy ° Roshanak Tootoonchi

Low grey and pinkish clouds clinging to the slopes and hiding the peaks of dark forested mountains, above a town of red-roofed buildings in the valley, with a tree in the foreground. — ° Silky Path to the Mountains ° Roshanak Tootoonchi

View at dusk over a river curving through an old city, with a tall stone bell tower, a stone arched bridge, a domed church and a construction crane under a pink sky, framed by dark tree branches. — ° Following the Adige River, Wherever I go ° Roshanak Tootoonchi

Turquoise green lake surrounded by steep forested hills and a pale cliff mirrored in the water, with a lifeguard tower and two people on the grassy shore. — ° Reflection in the Green Water ° Roshanak Tootoonchi

Thin-section micrograph of tonalite in crossed polarised light, seen as a round view through a microscope eyepiece: interlocking crystals in grey and olive and a large grain in bright yellow, orange and turquoise, dotted with black specks. — World under the microscope Alice Staro

Traffic light with the red and green lamps lit at the same time, above a blue sign reading Belok kiri ikuti isyarat lampu, on a wet street with a motorcyclist, cars and a white building behind. — Broken traffic light Redy Cristiandy

Shallow round pools in a pale crusty lakeshore in the foreground, and a reddish lake mirroring a cone-shaped brown mountain under a deep blue sky. — Southwest Circuit Tour, Bolivia Rolf Sander

Scorpion glowing bright greenish blue under ultraviolet light on dark leaf litter and twigs, surrounded by deep violet and black darkness. — A scorpion under UV light Jianhao Zhang

Sharp crest of an orange sand dune with sand blowing off it in a haze, rippled footprints along the ridge and a pale desert plain with scattered trees below a blue sky. — Flying sand in Namib Desert Jianhao Zhang

Close-up of a slope of black volcanic cinders and grey-green crusted rock, with blurred dark hills and patches of snow behind. — Warm_Terrain_Volcanic Martin Wieschalla

Satellite image of the whole Earth showing the Atlantic, South America and Africa under swirling white clouds, with the dark round shadow of an eclipse falling over the South Atlantic. — Annular Solar Eclipse Alexander Marshak

Satellite image of the dark grey far side of the Moon passing in front of the full Earth, which shows blue oceans, brown land, Australia and swirling white clouds. — Lunar Transit taken by DSCOVR/EPIC Alexander Marshak

Person in a blue helmet, dark jacket and crampons abseiling on a rope down a narrow, glistening ice shaft, lit by a headlamp in the dark. — A descent into darkness Matt Trevers

Person in a dark fur-hooded snowsuit standing on snow-covered sea ice, facing a towering wall of blue and white glacier ice with large fallen blocks at its base. — Under the calving front Matt Trevers

Broad green valley with steep sides and a two-tiered waterfall falling into a dark, stony river that winds across the flat floor, under a partly cloudy sky. — Islandic valley created during a volcanic eruption Manuel Queisser

Dark grey rock face crossed by many thin white quartz veins running in curved, roughly parallel streaks, with a hammer with a red handle for scale and green hills behind. — Veins in a ductile shear zone Wenzhu Hou

Mountain cliff showing a huge fold in the rock layers, with grey and yellowish limestone bent into a sideways loop around darker rock, above a sea of clouds and distant dark peaks. — Dent de Morcles, The Waadtland Alps, Switzerland Bernhard Edmaier

Black-and-white telescope image of the Crab Nebula: an oval cloud of glowing, tangled filaments surrounded by scattered stars on a black sky. — The Crab Nebula Alvaro Folhas

Aerial view from high altitude of a long, narrow green island with steep coasts in a deep blue ocean, scattered with small white clouds, the horizon curving under a hazy blue sky. — Saint George between the clouds André Cortesão

3D model of a fossil oyster reef surface packed with elongated shells, shown in natural colour at the top and as grey shaded relief below, with red outlines tracing shell borders. — High resolution 3D surface modeling of fossil oyster reef Ana Djuricic

Wet curved kerb and paved pavement at a street corner, with a thick crust of grey sand and grit piled along the road edge, a metal pole and a wet road beside it. — Snow melt deposits in Vilnius Paulo Pereira

Unpaved dirt road whose edge and verge are covered with a layer of fallen dry leaves, with grass alongside. — Natural soil erosion protection in an unpaved road Paulo Pereira

Three people kneeling around a shallow pit, one tapping small metal cylinders into the soil with a white mallet while another writes notes, with more cylinders, a notebook and a scoop nearby. — Assessing bulk density Antonio Jordán

Bare, compacted grey soil swept into curving parallel streaks, with a few scattered yellow and green fallen leaves. — Soil degradation in urban areas Paulo Pereira

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