Photo taken on Jan. 24, 2016 shows a view of solar halo over Hexigten Banner in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Sun Guoshu)
Aerial photo taken on Feb. 27, 2016 shows tea field and cherry blossoms in Yongfu Township of Longyan City, southeast China's Fujian Province. (Xinhua/Li Yishuang)
The aerial photo taken on March 20, 2016 shows the scenery of ice floating on the Qinghai Lake in northwest China's Qinghai Province. Qinghai Lake, covering 4,400 square kilometers, is China's largest inland salt lake. Drones have been in common use in photojournalism in 2016. (Xinhua/Wu Gang)
The Perseid meteor shower is seen over the sky from Naxos island in Greece, on Aug. 12, 2016. Stargazers stayed up awake in the early hours of Friday to watch the spectacular annual phenomenon which reached its peak on Aug. 12 this year. (Xinhua/Lefteris Partsalis)