Best Pictures of the Week: Blue Sand Dune on Mars, Catania Earthquake, Indonesian Volcano Eruption

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Nexter.org wants to show you the most memorable and brilliant photos from all over the world gathered during the last week.

NASA captured images of this sand dune on Mars that appears blue in an enhanced-color photo. The photo was taken in the planet’s Lyot Crater.

Source: NASA

Blue light illuminates the night sky after a transformer explosion at a power plant in Queens.

Source: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

People walking on the 21 meters tall ‘Tiger and Turtle Magic Mountain’ art installation made from tin, zinc and steel in Angerpark, Duisburg.

Source: Jan Scheunert/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock

An illuminated tree in the downtown area of Minsk ready to welcome in the new year.

Source: Tatyana Zenkovich/EPA

An emergency services worker dressed as Ded Moroz (Santa Claus, or Father Frost) greets two girls as he scales the wall of a children’s hospital in Moscow, Russia.

Source: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

A collapsed wall near Catania after a 4.8-magnitude earthquake, triggered by an eruption of Mount Etna. Four people were injured in the quake, which caused old buildings to collapse and the closure of part of a main road near the sea.

Source: Giovanni Isolino/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump and Melania Trump take phone calls from children as they participate in tracking Santa Claus’s movements with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) in the East Room of the White House.

Source: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

An aerial view shows Mount Anak Krakatau erupting. According to the Indonesian disaster management agency, at least 373 people have been killed after a tsunami, linked to the volcano, hit the Sunda Strait.