The silence of the night was broken by the sounds of song and laughter coming from across the lake that rested high in the forests of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

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A puff of steam shaped like a heart blocks the sun as it rises over a landscape that resembles the primordial earth in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

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Under a blue sky filled with wisps for clouds, the golden light of the setting sun highlights the rock formations called the "Wings" in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico.

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In the setting sun, a silhouette on the wall of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Culture Center in New Mexico gives a wave of greeting.

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The early morning reflected sunlight highlights the upstream entrance to The Narrows in Zion National Park, Utah.

featured in Explore 13 December 2016

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