Penitentes, or nieves penitentes (Spanish for “penitent-shaped snows”), are a snow formation found at high altitudes. They take the form of tall thin blades of hardened snow or ice, closely spaced with the blades oriented towards the general direction of the sun.

Antrim's Orlaith Prenter and Cliodhna McElroy of Fermanagh challenge for the ball in the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Football Junior Championship Final, at Croke Park, Dublin on July 31, 2022. P(Photo by Tom Maher/INPHO)

A festivalgoer enjoys the weather in the circus area at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, United Kingdom on Thursday, June 22, 2023. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)

In this Sunday, March 31, 2019, file photo, Marc Marquez, of Spain, drives his motorcycle during the Moto GP race at the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit in Argentina. The reigning MotoGP champion has dominated the Circuit of the Americas from the year it opened and the Repsol Honda rider comes back right back on top of the season standings in a chase for a sixth title in seven years. (Photo by Nicolas Aguilera/AP Photo/File)

Yanick Wasser of Switzerland jumps in the Mens Large Hill Individual competition during Day 2 of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup at Lake Placid Olympic Jumping Complex on February 08, 2025 in Lake Placid, New York. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

Australia's Nina Kennedy competes in the women's pole vault final at a Diamond League event in Florence, Italy on June 2, 2023. (Photo by Remo Casilli/Reuters)

A young female polar bear came to the vessel, which was stopped and shut down in fast ice on the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway. She was playing right in front of cameras entertaining people.

A South American marine animal rescue group “S.O.S Rescate de Fauna Marina” is raising a baby La Plata Dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei) found beached near Montevideo city with its umbilical cord still attached. The group is headed by Richard Tesore who is shown swimming with the baby female dolphin near the seaside resort of Piriapolis in Uruguay.