Icy moon above black mountains, peculiar geysers and a galactic crop circle? Actually, these alien landscapes are all on EARTH
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These incredible images of the planet Earth show it at its most striking and dramatic, and are more akin to those normally taken from Neptune, Mars or Pluto.
The alien-looking images come from a variety of locations across the globe including the White Desert in Egypt, Monument Valley in the U.S., and the Chocolate Hills of Bohol Island in the Philippines.
The images include shots of salt plains, rock formations, geysers, sand dunes, mud playas, lava shelves and deserts.

Rock Formations in Goreme Valley, Cappadocia, Turkey. The area features churches made of rock dating back to the Romans

Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat and is located in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes

The Geyser Hot Springs in Black Rock Desert, in Nevada in the U.S.

The White Desert in Egypt, the area has massive limestone formations that have been created as a result of sandstorms in the area

The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs in northern Arizona and southern Utah, USA, consist of deep canyons and several mile-long rock columns

The 'Chocolate Hills' on the island of Bohol in the Philippines get their name because the 1,700 naturally formed mounds are covered with chocolate brown grass in the dry season

The Namib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia consists of the Namib Desert (considered the world's oldest desert) and the Naukluft mountain range

The Strokkur geyser in Haukadalur, Iceland is one of the country's most famous geysers, and erupts every 4-8 minutes

A dramatic skyline above South Georgia Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in Antarctica

The inhospitable terrain at the southern end of Lake Turkana in Kenya. The fresh-looking lava flows came from Teleki s Volcano which last erupted about 130 years ago

Salt waters seep out of the ground, forming a slow moving brown river on the north side of the Dead Sea's south lake

The Richat Structure of Guelb er Richat in Mauritania. Originally thought to be a meteorite impact, it is now known to be a volcanic bulge that never erupted and was leveled by erosion

A dragonblood tree in the Homil Plateau, Socotra Island, Yemen. It gets its name from the red sap that the trees produce

Sinkholes pock-mark the emerging shoreline of the Dead Sea near Ein Gedi in Israel. The sinkholes are caused by fresh groundwater disolving subterranean salt deposits that once formed the bottom of the Dead Sea
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