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Since 1999, Earth Observatory has published 16,000+ images. To celebrate our 20th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we want you to pick our all-time best image. Each week from March 23 to April 28, you can vote for your favorite images.
Readers will narrow the field from 32 nominees down to one champion in a five-round knockout-style tournament. The brackets are: Past Winners, Home Planet, Land & Ice, and Sea & Sky.

Keeping in mind this is the favorite with a group of people voting at one site,
the winner is...


Ocean sand and seaweed in the Bahamas.

Home to deep trenches and busy volcanoes, the ocean floor is anything but flat—and in addition to these persistent geological features, the watery terrain is also continuously shaped by currents and tides. Those forces sculpt and whittle the ground into some pretty striking shapes, such as the jagged forms depicted in this winning false-color image, captured by the Landsat 7 satellite in 2001.

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