Sunset from Olmsted Point, Yosemite National Park, California, USA (© Robb Hirsch/Tandem Stills + Motion)

Chattooga River in the Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina (© mtilghma/Getty Images)

Brown bear in Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska (© Danny Green/Nature Picture Library)

Artemis I moon rocket at Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, June 15, 2022 (© EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/Getty Images)

Adélie penguins, Antarctica (© Otto Plantema/Minden Pictures)

Danxia landform, Zhangye National Geopark, Gansu, China (© Weiquan Lin/Getty Images)

Moss-covered rocks in Puzzlewood, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England (© Fulcanelli_AOS/Getty Images)

Octopus in defensive posture, Mayotte, Indian Ocean (© Gabriel Barathieu/Minden Pictures)

View of the Sanguinaires Islands from Corsica, France (© Francesco Riccardo Iacomino/Getty Images)

Double-crested cormorants over Monterey Bay, California (© Hiroya Minakuchi/Minden Pictures)

Glade Creek Grist Mill, Babcock State Park, West Virginia (© dszc/Getty Images)

White House Ruin at Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona (© Ingo Arndt/Minden Pictures)

Ammonite fossils from the Jurassic Period (© J Nemchinova/Getty Images)