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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

Aerial view of a yellow underwater glider with dark wings in turquoise water beside the white overhanging edge of an iceberg, with small ice chunks floating on the dark sea. — A nerve-wracking glider recovery Karen Heywood

Two people on a wet ship deck working on a rig of large orange and red float cylinders, one kneeling in blue overalls, beside blue shipping containers. — Screwing together some Ocean Bottom Seismometers Anouk Beniest

Large icebreaker ship with a dark blue hull, white superstructure and red cranes pushing through broken sea ice, with many people lining its decks and grey smoke rising from the funnel. — Toward North, toward science Michael Lonardi

Person in red cold-weather overalls pulling a black equipment case on a sled across a wooden plank over a meltwater pool on sea ice, towards a large research ship in hazy mist. — After a long day in the field Michael Lonardi

Fisheye aerial view looking straight down from a high pole onto white sea ice broken into floes and pools, with a small red ship near the top and an orange object nearby. — An ice floe called home Michael Lonardi

Brightly lit ship deck seen from above at night, with yellow equipment, a cable reel and a tilted crane arm, surrounded by total darkness of the open sea. — North Pacific at night Hannah Mark

Misty forest of tall eucalyptus trees with pale yellow-green lichen hanging in strands from their branches, under a grey sky. — Eucalyptus forest in the mist Alexandre Florent Nolin

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

Aerial view of a single penguin standing on a snowy ice sheet beside a wide zigzag crack of dark water, casting a long blue shadow. — Penguin and Crack, Weddel Sea, 2019 Theresa Diener

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

Group of about twenty emperor penguins standing and lying on a flat ice floe, with broken sea ice, open water and a flat-topped iceberg under a grey sky behind. — Emperor penguins, Weddell Sea Ronja Reese

Aerial view of large and small white ice floes, some flat and grey, some ridged and snow-covered, floating on dark blue water with thin patches of new ice. — Ice floes in the Weddell Sea Ronja Reese

Low sun at the horizon glowing orange through wisps of mist rising from open water between flat white floes of sea ice, under a dark grey sky. — Sunset sea smoke, Antarctica Ricarda Winkelmann

Large flat-topped icebergs with steep sides beside open water dotted with small flat ice floes, under a sky glowing yellow at the horizon below grey cloud. — Icebergs, Weddell Sea Ricarda Winkelmann

Low white ice cliff stretching along the horizon above calm blue water, under a blue sky streaked with long feathery white clouds. — Ronne Ice Shelf edge Ricarda Winkelmann

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

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