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 ...

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.