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Earth is a beautiful, one-of-a-kind place.
To remind you of this, we've rounded up some of the most beautiful and mesmerizing pictures of our home planet.
These images will make you fall in love with earth all over again.
Swans swim past changing autumn leaves in Sheffield Park Gardens in southern England.
REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
Cherry blossoms are seen in full bloom in Tokyo.
Cherry blossoms in Tokyo
REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Smoke and lava spew from Chile's Villarrica Volcano at the end of March.
Smoke and lava spew from the Villarrica volcano, as seen from Pucon town in the south of Santiago March 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Cristobal Saavedra
One of the world's largest flower gardens, known as the Garden of Europe, is seen from above in the Netherlands.
Gardens of Europe
REUTERS/Yves Herman
Migrating common cranes fly to their night roost at sunset north of Berlin.
REUTERS/Thomas Krumenacker
The colors of fall can be seen reflected in a waterfall along the Blackberry River in Connecticut.
REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
A woman cycles in the early-morning autumn sunshine in London's Richmond Park.
REUTERS/Luke MacGrego
Leaves are colored red in a vineyard during a sunny autumn day near Ueberlingen in Germany.
REUTERS/Miro Kuzmanovic
The sun sets on Ayers Rock, one of Australia's major tourist destinations, attracting 400,000 visitors every year.
REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
Icebergs are reflected in the calm waters at the mouth of the Jakobshavn ice fjord on the west coast of Greenland.
REUTERS/Bob Strong
Frosted trees are seen in the middle of vineyards in the Alsace region countryside near Strasbourg, France.
REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
Tourists explore sand dunes in Africa's Mauritanian desert.
REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun
A Rufous-tailed hummingbird flies in a garden in San Francisco.
REUTERS/Jose Miguel Gomez
A dogsled team carries tourists down the frozen Torne River, located above the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden.
REUTERS/Bob Strong
Tourists visit the famous ancient windmills in central Spain.
REUTERS/Victor Fraile
A river runs through a valley near Moose Pond in Canada's Northwest Territories.
REUTERS/Adrian Wyld/POOL
A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over the village of Kuklici in Macedonia.
REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski
An aerial view of Mount Gamalama as it spews volcanic ash after it erupted at the Indonesia's Ternate Island.
REUTERS/Stringer
A whale shark is seen in the Galapagos Islands.
REUTERS/Jonathan Green/Galapagos National Park
A surfer watches a group of dolphins leap in the waters of Bondi Beach in Sydney.
REUTERS/Daniel Munoz
A bluish-colored honeycomb from a beehive is seen in eastern France. The unnatural shades were believed to be caused by residue from containers of M&M's candy processed at a nearby biogas plant.
REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
Palestinians herd sheep in Israeli's Judean desert.
Palestinians herd sheep in the Judean desert between Jericho and Jerusalem February 6, 2015.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Storm clouds and dust can be seen in the sky above a woman as she walks at dusk along Mollymook Beach, south of Sydney.
REUTERS/David Gray
Huge waves crash onto the San Esteban de Pravia seafront in the northern Spanish region of Asturias.
REUTERS/Eloy Alonso
Children play near a tree standing in front of fog over the central Bosnian town of Zenica on the Lisac mountain range.
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
A lion cub rests at Tanzania's Serengeti National Park.
REUTERS/Noor Khamis
The moon is pictured above the mountains in Rosa Khutor in Russia during the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
A southern white rhino named Bella eats with her day-old baby at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary in central Uganda.
REUTERS/Edward Echwalu
Tourists bathe at the El Cuarzo waterfall, locally referred to as the River of Five Colors, in Cano Cristales in the Colombia's Sierra de La Macarena National Park.
REUTERS/Jose Miguel Gomez
A long exposure photo shows star trails behind a tree in China.
REUTERS/China Daily
An old hydro building is seen behind Niagara Falls during sub-freezing temperatures in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Mark Blinch/Reuters
A horse walks in the snow at the base of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights near the Israel-Syria border.
REUTERS/Nir Elias
Dimmed lights are switched on in igloos on top of the mountain Nebelhorn, near the southern Bavarian town of Oberstdorf.
REUTERS/Michaela Rehle
A flock of migrating cranes seen at the Hula Lake Ornithology and Nature Park in northern Israel.
REUTERS/Nir Elias
Eco-tourists walk through part of the Cano Cristales in Colombia's Sierra de La Macarena National Park.
REUTERS/Jose Miguel Gomez
Rain clouds are lit by the setting sun in northern England.
REUTERS/Toby Melville
Lightning strikes as Indonesia's Mount Sinabung volcano spews ash and hot lava.
REUTERS/YT Haryono
Residents and tourists relax at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.
REUTERS/Sergio Moraes
A local fisherman rows his boat across Lake Ilopango on the outskirts of San Salvador.
REUTERS/Ulises Rodriguez
A llama stands next to a cactus growing on Incahuasi Island above the Uyuni salt lake, which holds the world's largest reserve of lithium.
REUTERS/David Mercado
Daffodils are pictured with the London Eye behind them.
REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
A bee is covered with pollen as it sits on a blade of grass.
REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader
Visitors climb up stairs on the newly opened treetop path in the Masoala Rainforest hall at the zoo in Zurich.
REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
Volcano Mount Karangetang spews lava as seen from Bebali village in Indonesia.
REUTERS/Stringer
A person walks past a snowdrift in Northern Ireland.
REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
A national reserve in San Francisco shows a colony of sea lions resting on the shore.
REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
The supermoon rises over the temple of Poseidon, the ancient Greek god of the seas, in Cape Sounion, Greece.
REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
A worker hand-picks Giant Tecolote Ranunculus flowers at the Flower Fields in California.
REUTERS/Mike Blake
A monkey surrounded by carp plays in a pond at a wildlife park in China.
REUTERS/Stringer
An aerial view of Nevado del Tolima volcano in Colombia.
REUTERS/John Vizcaino
A view from Brazil's Iguazu Falls, one of the world's largest.
A view is seen of the Iguazu Falls, one of the world's largest, from the Brazilian side of the Iguazu River
REUTERS/Jorge Adorno
Puffins carry sand eels for their young as they fly above the Farne Islands off northern England.
REUTERS/Nigel Roddis
People relax in one of the Blue Lagoon hot springs in Iceland.
REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Lizards sun themselves on a dried out dock at Lake Cachuma in Santa Barbara, California.
Lizards sun themselves on a dried out dock at Lake Cachuma in Santa Barbara, California
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
A total solar eclipse is seen in Svalbard, Norway, in March.
A total solar eclipse is seen in Longyearbyen on Svalbard March 20, 2015.
REUTERS/Jon Olav
The glow of the northern lights is seen in southern Ontario.
The glow of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, is seen in the horizon in the Kawartha Lakes region, southern Ontario February 23, 2015.
REUTERS/Fred Thornhill
Snow falls on a flock of flamingos at a wildlife zoo in eastern China's Anhui province.
Snow falls on a flock of flamingos standing on a snow-covered field at a wildlife zoo in Hefei, Anhui province January 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
The sunset lights up mountains near a Swiss resort.
The sunset illuminates the peaks of the mountains near the Swiss mountain resort of St. Moritz
REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
Huge waves crash on the seafront in northern Spain.
Huge waves crash on the San Esteban de Pravia seafront in the northern Spanish region of Asturias February 24, 2015.
REUTERS/Eloy Alonso
A view from the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory in Brazil.
A view is seen from the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) in Sao Sebastiao do Uatuma in the middle of the Amazon forest in Amazonas state January 10, 2015.
REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
Bedouin tribes guide hikers through the untamed wilderness of the Nile Valley in Sinai, Egypt.
REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
An eastern cottontail rabbit hides in the grass at a park on a man-made peninsula, called the Leslie Street Spit, in Toronto.
REUTERS/Mark Blinch
A boy uses a paddle board during sunset on Lake Zicksee in St. Andrae, Austria.
REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
A forest in southern England is one of the most beautiful places to see bluebell flowers.
REUTERS/Toby Melville
A turtle digs for food in the lagoon on the Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort, located off of Austrailia.
David Gray/Reuters
A deer rests by a river in England.
REUTERS/Darren Staples
A train travels through hills covered by fresh snow on the outskirts of Beijing, China.
REUTERS/China Daily
A tourist swims inside the Blue Cave of the Greek island Kastellorizo.
REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
A woman swims at the beach with her granddaughter in Cuba.
Retiree Madeline Barcelo swims at the beach with her granddaughter in Varadero, Cuba, August 26, 2015. Cubans are flocking to the beach in record numbers before a possible end to the U.S. travel ban that would open the gates to American tourists and bump up prices. Picture taken August 26, 2015.
Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini
A long time exposure shows the Lauterbrunnen valley in Switzerland.
REUTERS/Michael Buholzer
A polar bear shakes water off his body at a zoo in Canada.
A polar bear shakes his body to remove water at the St. Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St. Felicien, March 5, 2009.
REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger
Visitors watch the sunrise from Mount Moses in the Sinai Peninsula.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
People sunbathe on a beach in Portugal.
REUTERS/Nacho Doce
Seagulls are fed by tourists in Australia.
REUTERS/Mick Tsikas
A tourist skis down Maso Corto mountain in Italy.
REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
A huskie dog team plays in the snow in Scotland.
REUTERS/Jeff J Mitchell
A Costa Rican farmer sells fresh tomatoes on the roadside.
REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate
A tourist boat is seen off the shore of Rinca island in eastern Indonesia.
A tourist boat is seen off the shore of Rinca island in Komodo National Park, a popular tourist destination in eastern Indonesia
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A farmer herds his cattle near the outback Queensland town of Aramac.
REUTERS/David Gray
A trevally chases fusiliers near Malaysia's Lankayan Island.
REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad
A cow stands on Lag Bay beach on the island of Eigg.
REUTERS/Paul Hackett
Landscaped gardens are pictured in southwest England.
REUTERS/Toby Melville
The moon illuminates snow-covered glaciers, near the world's second highest mountain, K2.
REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Mountains are reflected in a small lake in the western Austrian village of Seefeld.
REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler
Flamingos are seen in a nature reserve park in China.
REUTERS/Alex Lee
A view of Peru's lake Laguna 513, at more than 13,000 feet above sea level in front of the Hualcan glacier.
REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
A pair of Indian Runner ducks are seen at a vineyard at the Vergenoegd wine estate near Cape Town, South Africa.
REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
Boats are moored off of Pink Beach in Komodo National Park, a popular tourist destination in eastern Indonesia.
Boats are moored off of Pink Beach in Komodo National Park, a popular tourist destination in eastern Indonesia
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A long exposure picture shows the trail of the planet Mars as the brightest among stars as it crosses the night sky over Bolshoy (Big) Almaty lake in Kazakhstan.
A long exposure picture shows the trail of the planet Mars as the brightest among stars as it crosses the night sky over Bolshoy (Big) Almaty lake at
REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
A windsurfer gets airbourne as the sun sets over Cape Town's Blaauwberg beach.
A windsurfer gets airbourne as the sun sets over Cape Town's Blaauwberg beach
REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
A view of the Italian countryside at Bagno Vignoni near Siena in central Italy.
A view of the Italian countryside at Bagno Vignoni near Siena in central Italy
REUTERS/Max Rossi MR/THI
A vehicle passes along the border of the Sahara desert.
A vehicle passes along the border of the Sahara desert
REUTERS/Yves Herman
A view of Lake Batur in the Central Moutains of Bali.
A view of Lake Batur in the Central Moutains of Bali
REUTERS/Bob Strong
A group of pelicans gather to catch fish.
A group of pelicans gather to catch fish
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Kashmiri people walk through a mustard field with apricot trees in Kanibal on the outskirts of Srinagar.
Kashmiri people walk through a mustard field with apricot trees in Kanibal on the outskirts of Srinagar
REUTERS/Danish Ismail
A Brazilian walks at sunset on Rodrigo de Freitas Lake in Rio de Janeiro.
A Brazilian walks at sunset on Rodrigo de Freitas Lake in Rio de Janeiro
REUTERS/Bruno Domingos
A dog runs stands in the snowy countryside on a sunny winter day in Austria.
A dog runs stands in the snowy countryside on a sunny winter day in Patsch in Austria's
REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler
A local Thai man fishes at sunset near Patong Beach on the Thai resort island of Phuket.
A local Thai man fishes at sunset near Patong Beach on the Thai resort island of Phuket
REUTERS/Adrees Latif
A bee collects pollen from a field of crocuses at Kew Gardens in London.
A bee collects pollen from a field of crocuses at Kew Gardens in London
REUTERS/Kieran Doherty
Siberian flowers named in Siberia "Zharki" are seen with the Western Sayan mountains in the background in southern Siberia.
Siberian flowers named in Siberia "Zharki" are seen with mountains in the background in Western Sayan mountains in southern Siberia
REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin AS