This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... they couldn’t otherwise see, satellite images help scientists find and map long-lost rivers, roads, and cities ...

This story appears in the November 2015 issue of National ... It’s a map of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration over land last summer (June 7-23, 2015), made by NASA’s OCO-2 satellite.

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.

Once this photolettering process was refined, it was applied to our United States map supplement in the May 1933 National Geographic. Shortly thereafter, Society cartographer Charles E.

Halpern and others, Nature Communications; UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas (2016) This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The map above is ...

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.