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- World ·
Night view from orbit: Mediterranean coasts aglow
Footage from the space station shows city lights tracing the dark expanse of the sea.
- World ·
Earth’s night side spins into view as city lights outline the continents
An animation built from satellite data gathers the planet’s artificial lights into a single turning globe.
- World ·
Moonlight on the ocean, city lights on land
4K footage from the space station follows a night-time pass from moon glint over the Pacific to the lights inland.
- Business ·
Harvest season: rice pours into a waiting trailer
Paddy streaming from a combine’s unloading auger quickly filled the trailer at the edge of the field.
- Business ·
Forestry harvester at work in a winter woodland
A timber machine working through a snowy birch wood stacks felled trunks by the track.
- Business ·
Combines side by side in a wheat field: the harvest from above
Drone footage shows two combine harvesters unloading grain into a moving tractor trailer.
- Technology ·
Search-and-rescue robot tackles a stepped obstacle course
A tracked robot used its cameras and lights to pick its way across a field of uneven wooden blocks.
- Technology ·
A 3D model of a Mars rover, seen from every angle
The animation shows the six-wheeled rover’s robotic arm, cameras and chassis in detail.
- Technology ·
Night launch: a sounding rocket climbs through the clouds
Fired from a pad ringed by trees, the rocket left a trail of flame before vanishing into cloud.
- Sports ·
Paragliding at sunset: gliding over the mountains
Launching from a hillside, the pilot made a long glide through golden light above the valley.
- Sports ·
Kitesurfers make the most of a windy beach
Under the late-afternoon sun, dozens of colourful kites caught the breeze above the waves.
- Sports ·
Mountain biking down a sagebrush trail
Weaving through the bends of a dirt track, the rider kept up speed across the dry scrubland.
- Health ·
A day in the lab: samples examined with care
Technicians in white coats work on blood and tissue samples inside biosafety cabinets.
- Health ·
Hiking the ridge trail: health one step at a time
Walkers on a path between rocky hills made their way past bright orange poppies.
- Culture ·
Night show on the shore: fireworks bloom above the water
Spectators lining the seafront watched coloured fireworks open in half-domes on the surface of the sea.
- Culture ·
As the towers light up: a riverside skyline turns to night
A timelapse turns a cloudy evening into night as towers and skyscrapers switch on their lights.
- Culture ·
Ruins of a medieval stronghold seen from the air
Drone footage shows stone walls on a green hill, a manor house and the small town around them.
- Lifestyle ·
A waterfall tumbling step by step through the forest
Water spilling from a high rock wall runs over mossy ledges in a series of small cascades.
- Lifestyle ·
A water bird hunts for food beneath a waterfall
A small grey bird working the mossy rocks dived into the current in search of prey.
- Lifestyle ·
Busy bees among purple blooms
Bumblebees landing on asters in the autumn sun gathered nectar from flower to flower.
