36 Incredible Drone Photos Showcasing the Diversity of Our Planet

Aerial photography helps us see the world from an unexpected perspective. Here's how our beautiful planet looks during the global coronavirus pandemic. It will feature the innovations of the coronavirus era, a disregard for social distancing rules, and the consequences of the economic crisis.







A cruise ship graveyard in the port of Aliaga, Turkey. Cruise lines, left without customers by the coronavirus pandemic, are scrapping ships en masse.

A school of salmon with a shark in the center off the coast of Australia. This image won the Grand Prix at the 2020 Drone Awards.



Construction has begun on Tesla's new factory in Gruienheide, Germany, near Berlin. Tesla plans to begin production of electric vehicles at the site by the summer of 2021. The plant, with a capacity of at least 100,000 vehicles per year, will employ approximately 12,000 people.



Sorting potted plants at a flower farm in Taoyang, China.



Audience members observe social distancing at a late-night screening of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.



Canola fields, a type of rapeseed, in the Australian state of New South Wales, are ready for harvest.



Boats on the dried-up Lake Marmara in the Turkish province of Manisa. The lake now contains only 1.5% of its former water level due to heavy irrigation use and unusually hot summer weather.



Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro is crowded despite the pandemic. City authorities have permitted beach access and swimming. However, the use of sun loungers and canopies on the sand remains prohibited, and these rules are being ignored.



Salt deposits in the Dead Sea, near Ein Bokek, Israel.



Swimmers on Ipanema Beach during the height of the coronavirus outbreak in Brazil.



Construction of the new Mexico City Airport terminal in the suburb of Texcoco was halted two years ago. This summer, the abandoned construction site was flooded by torrential rains.



A woman carrying a basket walks through a rice field in the town of Tral in southern Kashmir, India.



French artist Saype poses in front of his giant painting. This land art piece, titled "Over the Walls," was created near the ancient Palatine Gate in Turin. Saype creates giant paintings in natural settings using biodegradable, environmentally friendly paints.



A dead crocodile in Transpantaneira National Park in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, where the worst fires in the region's history have raged this fall.



Preparing fields for winter near the town of Nagykanizsa, Hungary.



A bird's eye view of Pamukkale. Pamukkale is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, known for its mineral-rich thermal waters and white travertine terraces.



Lake Cerro near Limpio, Paraguay, turned a strange purple color this summer, and the Waltrading SA tannery (bottom right) is to blame. According to Francisco Ferreira, a laboratory technician at the National University of Paraguay, the water's color is caused by the presence of heavy metals such as chromium, commonly used in the tanning process.



The Fontanka SUP paddleboarding festival on the Fontanka River in St. Petersburg.



Britain's first road where cyclists and pedestrians have priority over cars opened in Cambridge in August.



The white beach of Rosignano in Tuscany, Italy, is bustling with vacationers.



Hot Air Balloon Festival.



A beach in Durres, Albania, on the Adriatic Sea, during the height of the August heat wave. According to Albanian authorities, tourism in the country has fallen by 66% due to the coronavirus pandemic.



Participants in the international swim across the Bosphorus Strait, organized by the Turkish Olympic Committee in August 2020.



Drive-in theater: spectators watch the Vertigo dance troupe's performance from their cars in Jerusalem during the pandemic.



Prayers near the Al-Azhar Grand Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia.



The Last Trees: Clearing Amazon Rainforest for Crop Land in the Brazilian State of Rondônia.



Social distancing: An intersection in a normally bustling Tokyo shopping district during the pandemic.



A storage facility for boats used by illegal migrants to cross the English Channel to England has been established in Dover.



Water lily harvesting on the Dnieper River near Kyiv.



The MV Wakashio, which sank off the coast of Mauritius, spilling over 1,000 tons of fuel into the ocean.



Boat market in Manikganj, Bangladesh.



Protests in Belarus.



The aftermath of the powerful explosion at the Port of Beirut on August 8, 2020, which killed more than 170 people.



A water park in Guiyang, Guzhou Province, China.



Tourists flock to Shunhuang Mountain National Park, Hunan Province, China.