NASA award showcases all-time best photos of Earth

In honor of Earth Day's 50th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of NASA's Earth Observatory, NASA asked the public to vote on which pictures captures our beautiful planet.
Voters had to pick from 20 years of images and "more than 15,500 image-driven stories" to select the top stunners from The Earth Observatory, a website dedicated to sharing science stories about Earth.
Over 56,000 votes came in during the course of five rounds. The winner, announced on April 28, was taken in 2001 by Serge Andrefouet, a remote sensing specialist at the University of South Florida, captures sand and seaweed in the Bahamas using a Landsat 7 satellite.
The runner-up image showed a dramatic eruption of Raikoke volcano in Russia as seen by astronauts on the International Space Station.
Check out the video for more amazing shots.