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.

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 ...

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 ...