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False-colour satellite image of a snow-covered volcanic island in dark sea, a glowing red spot inside the summit crater, with small icebergs scattered around the coast. — Christmas at the lava lake András Zlinszky

Orange sun disc with a tiny dark sunspot, dimmed and fading at its lower edge into a thick brown haze above a dark sea. — When the Desert meets the Ocean Marius Schulz

Dark grey-blue sea surface covered with choppy waves of different sizes, small ripples riding on larger swells, with a few touches of white foam. — Åland Sea wave patterns Veera Haapaniemi

Clear shallow water over a sandy bottom seen from above, rippled light patterns on the sand and a wavy line where a small wave front meets the sand. — S(tr)anding – Sand, waves and sunlight Veera Haapaniemi

Dark, rough sea at dusk, the wave crests catching the last orange light and one breaking wave throwing up white spray in the foreground. — Bothnian Sea waves in the dusk Veera Haapaniemi

Weathered pahoehoe lava: a brown and dark grey rock surface folded into broad curved ropy ridges, with rougher lava blocks behind. — Weathered pāhoehoe lava, Pico del Teide, Tenerife Michael Grund

Large boulders of obsidian streaked with glossy black, grey and rusty orange bands, beside a bright green shrub, a fig tree and a dry stone wall under a hazy sky. — Obsidian rocks, Lipari, Aeolian Islands Michael Grund

Towering wall of bright white cloud curving away under a deep blue sky, seen from an aircraft whose wing tip shows at the lower left corner. — Eye of Hurricane Florence from the NOAA WP-3D Jonathan Zawislak

Microscope close-up of a smooth pinkish white foraminifera shell with two dark square laser pits on its surface, and a scale bar reading 250 µm. — Ablated Lachlanella (foraminifera) Danna Titelboim

Microscope close-up of a pink, finely pitted foraminifera shell with rounded chambers, three of which have a dark square laser pit, on a black background with a scale bar reading 100 µm. — Ablated Pararotalia calcariformata (foraminifera) Danna Titelboim

Close-up of beach sediment made of rounded quartz grains shaped like rice, mostly milky white and translucent with scattered pink, orange, green and grey grains. — The beach of rice grains Giovanni Randazzo

Ruined square stone tower on a low rocky point surrounded by calm blue sea, with a rugged granite mountain glowing orange in the evening light on the far shore. — the sunset on the Sardinia Island Giovanni Randazzo

Aerial view of a deep blue bay with a small rocky island linked by sand to the shore, steep green hillsides with towns perched on cliffs, and a snow-capped volcano in the distance. — The pearl of Sicily Island Giovanni Randazzo

Black-and-white X-ray image of sea shells digitally mirrored and repeated into a symmetrical pattern, with a row of rounded shell shapes across the middle like a kaleidoscope. — Artificial mirror effect on radiographic image of sea shells Dursun Acar

Close-up of a small opening in grey volcanic ground crusted with bright yellow and pale green sulphur crystals around its dark mouth, among scattered grey stones. — A slightly different fissure Laura Czekay

Close-up of a red ladybird with black spots on a rough grey lump of porous volcanic rock, with dark ash blurred in the background. — Small red dots in ashes Laura Czekay

Two people in helmets silhouetted on a dark volcanic ridge, facing a cone wreathed in billowing smoke lit golden by the low sun, with tents in the foreground. — In top of Stromboli in the evening Laura Czekay

Black-and-white electron micrograph of a rounded foraminifera shell covered in hexagonal pits, some filled with tiny nanofossil particles, with a 30 micrometre scale bar. — Micro and Nano composition Liubov Kuleshova

Two people in orange overalls and white hard hats handling ropes on a ship deck above a grey sea, beside an orange ocean bottom seismometer with a metal frame and handle. — One day at sea as a seismologist Raffaele Bonadio

Video of an underwater view looking up at the sea surface, where the tilted, rippled underside of a wave glitters with white light against dark blue and turquoise water. — Ocean waves as the fish see it! Raffaele Bonadio

Silhouette of a person in a helmet on a ship deck beside a hanging cable, looking out over a calm sea as the sun sits on the horizon in an orange sky. — Early morning CTD-rosette on board R/V Pourquoi Pas? Cecile Guieu

View from an aircraft window past a white wing and engine housings, flying among ragged grey clouds with a darker ocean below and a thick grey cloud layer above. — Smoky marine boundary layer in southeast Atlantic Michael Diamond

View from an aircraft window over a white wing and engine housings, above a wide sheet of pale stratocumulus cloud with faint wave patterns and a hazy horizon under a blue sky. — Waves in stratocumulus clouds over the southeast Atlantic Michael Diamond

Underwater view of a long transparent cylindrical bag hanging from a floating frame below the sunlit sea surface, deep blue water all around. — A window into the future ocean Michael Sswat

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