National Geographic has always been at the forefront ... which has surveyed the entire surface. The moon is peppered with probes and landers, the legacy of human efforts to explore it.

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... On the Earth-facing side of the moon 48 years later, undisturbed by wind or water, development or war, Tranquility ...

50 years after Apollo 11, a new moon race is on 50 years after Apollo ... Niger is a nation on the edge With his Pristine Seas project, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala ...