May 23, 2025, Elkton, Oregon, USA: A dog tick, also known as wood tick, waits for a passing animal as it clings to a fern along a game trail near the Umpqua River in rural southwestern Oregon. Dozens of ticks were climbing on ferns in a small area along the trail. Ticks thrive in humid, moist environments. The area had an extremely rainy late winter and early spring which may have contributed to the tick population boom.
May 24, 2025, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, lifts off from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, at 1:19 p.m. EDT on May 24, 2025
May 24, 2025, Kejzlice, Czech Republic: Hot air balloons take off from the sports airfield in Kejzlice (110 kilometers southeast of Prague) in the Czech Republic on the evening of May 24, 2025, when the weather allowed the balloons to lift off. Hot air balloons take off in the morning and evening, when air currents are not affected by thermal currents, and fly in the direction of the wind.