30 Photos That Look So Extraterrestrial, It’s Hard to Believe They Were Taken on Our Planet

While Elon Musk and his followers are planning to colonize Mars, our home planet keeps surprising and delighting us. The photographs of Earth with no photoshopping or filters remind us of some scenes from fantastic movies or open doors to parallel universes showing the world around us from a completely different, mesmerizing, and captivating side.

 

The island of Crete is being swallowed by a cloud of African dust.

© DimaAlimonov/pikabu

A beach, as seen from above

© alexmaclean.com

Thousands of light bugs in a cave in New Zealand

© shaunjeffersphoto|facebook

Tree roots in Angkor Wat, Cambodia

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Gorkaya River in Russia. The color of the water changes from orange to crimson because of the high levels of metal oxides in it.

© discoverynn/pikabu

Sand tufas shaped by wind and time in California

© nationalgeographic.com

A cloud in Portugal reminescent of a gigantic fist

© unknown author/imgur

A “green” lake with pristine water in Austria

© Chomett/flickr

A view from the window, Finland

© dobro111/pikabu

Yuncheng Lake in China turned into colorful pools because the seaweed in it reproduced quickly due to hot weather.

© DrakHan/pikabu

A guitar-shaped highway junction, Ufa, Russia

© USSMan/pikabu

“Gardens by the Bay” nature park, Singapore

© Victor Mazovsky/flickr

Magdeburg Water Bridge, Germany

© vndsgn/reddit

A departing train is covered by 30,000 light emitting diodes

© unknown author/imgur/imgur

A bamboo forest in snow

© unknown author/imgur/imgur

The contrasts of architecture in Macao

© unknown author/imgur

The Milky Way shot with long exposure is reminescent of fractal geometry.

© unknown author/imgur

A tree-shaped river in Australia

© Prostoilogin/pikabu

Retba lake in Senegal

© nationalgeographic

Thousands of migrating starlings in the sky above Rome

© iProcione/pikabu

The ice caves in Iceland

© ManishMamtaniPhotography/facebook

Fly Geyser, USA

© unknown author/imgur

Light pillars, Norway

© golden_an/reddit

Lava hitting the ocean, Hawaii

© unknown author/imgur

These solar panels look like a pixelated lake.

© ReubenWuMusicianPhotographer/facebook

A flock of sheep crossing a frozen lake in Tibet

© Sharemanchik/pikabu

White Pocket, Arizona, USA

© /ReubenWuMusicianPhotographer/facebook

Halo-effect, Sweden

© unknown author/imgur

Dubai skyscrapers

© albertdrosphotography/facebook

A deep hole with a lake on its bottom, Italy

© papa57/pikabu

Which pictures did you like most of all? Share your impressions with us in the comments.