This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at the time.

50 years after Apollo 11, a new moon ... moon map Surrounded by chaos, Niger is a nation on the edge Surrounded by chaos, Niger is a nation on the edge With his Pristine Seas project, National ...

the National Geographic Society and the Universities of Denver and Colorado set out for way stations on the eclipse’s 70-mile-wide path. When the moon’s shadow climbs northeastward over half ...

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.