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The Curiosity rover faced a five-mile (eight-kilometer) trek from its landing site to the foothills of Aeolis Mons, but driving across bedrock eroded into sharp points was destroying its wheels. In early 2014, the mission directed the rover across a sand drift at Dingo Gap, leaving behind the jagged bedrock for kinder, gravel-filled valley bottoms.

Space

Extraordinary images reveal the mysteries of Mars

From windswept craters to frigid ice caps, explore Martian landscapes through the eyes of NASA’s orbiters, probes and rovers

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The town of Colonnata (Italy), which lies beneath marble quarries in the Apuan Alps. Colonnata is famous for the lard produced there, and for being inhabited by marble quarrymen.

Earth

Incredible images tell the tale of the world’s most prized marble

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Visualising a virus: How our covers captured an unfolding crisis

Health

Visualising a virus: How our covers captured an unfolding crisis

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Canton Z?rich, Switzerland Ice has formed around a waterfall near Gibswil. Icicles growing from the top, and ice formations growing from the bottom have coalesced into one continuous column. Page 16 + 17

Earth

Remarkable images capture the diversity of Earth's ice formations

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Evident Image of the Year global winner: Cross-section of a Cosmic Orange aster flower with pollen grains maturing inside anthers. Captured by Igor Siwanowicz of the United States. Igor Siwanowicz of the United States was selected as the global winner for his striking cross- section image of a Cosmic Orange Mexican aster flower that vividly depicts pollen grains maturing inside anthers. To create this image, Siwanowicz embedded isolated florets in agarose, sectioned on a vibratome and stained with Calcofluor White and Congo Red dyes. The sample was dehydrated, cleared and mounted in methyl salicylate. Siwanowicz chose to image this flower to observe how aster florets are organized before the flower opens. ?I was lucky to pick my flower buds at the right stage of development, with the pollen grains almost fully mature but still bound together in a mass,? Siwanowicz explained. ?I think this image shows the true beauty of a common flower that most of us take for granted by extending it well beyond what we can see with the naked eye. The beauty of natural form and design is present on very different scales, sometimes almost in a fractal manner?as we continue to zoom in, the form may lose familiarity but also become a new emotional experience.?

Life

See the world in close-up in these intricate images of nature

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125 Mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis) (vol. 2, t. 25)

Life

Intricate 18th-century illustrations of stunning flora and fauna

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Morocco - Tafilalt Oasis - On July 2019 a wildfire spread over 3km across the palm grove burning more than 10,000 trees of which 2500 were palm trees. Summer wildfires are due to a combination of extreme temperatures and lying dead trees. which can easily catch fire in the summer months.

Environment

Images reveal how climate change is upending life in Morocco's oases

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Images contain stitched photos to create a panorama. Top: Historical panorama image from the Norwegian Polar Institute from 1967 (reference n. NP051261), shows the glaciers Kongsbreen and Kronobreen merging and surrounding Colleth??gda Island, outside Ny ??lesund, Svalbard. Bottom: Panorama image taken from the same position by photographer Christian Aslund on the 24th August 2024. Greenpeace has commissioned photographer Christian Aslund to continue a project he began in 2002 - to carry out visual research of glaciers in Svalbard and document their retreat over time. While sailing aboard the Greenpeace vessel ???Witness???, Aslund revisited glaciers he first documented in 2002 as well as photographing others, new to this project. The Arctic has been warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, due to

Environment

Striking photos highlight the stark reality of Arctic glacier melt

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Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR Food 2021 Siberia is an innovative greenhouse where lettuce on water is being produced.

Environment

Does this high-tech lettuce hold the answer to the global food crisis?

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What: This photo shows a spiny toad amplexus, with a female in the middle of several males. When: The photo was taken in May 2024. Where: The image was taken in the Pyr??n??es Atlantiques, France. How it was taken: The photo was taken at night, when hundreds of toads are crossing the roads to reach their egg-laying grounds. It's common to see such clusters of toads at this time of year. How it was post-processed: I made some basic adjustments to the brightness and contrast, as well as highlighting the individuals and applying a slight vignetting, while taking care not to distort the original photo.

Life

See nature in close-up in these stunning photographs

Shortlisted for the Close-up Photographer of the Year contest, these images zoom in on animals in all their glory

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Earth

Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship

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Space

10 stunning James Webb Space Telescope images show the beauty of space

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51¶¯Âþ Live

All the action from 51¶¯Âþ Live – in photographs

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Life

See the stunning winners from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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