List of National Geographic cover stories

National Geographic is an American magazine noted for its cover stories and accompanying photography.

The cover of the magazine featured a picture taken from space by Armstrong of Aldrin in a spacesuit on the surface of the Moon.

[7][8] In the November 1971 issue, Samuel W. Mathews and photographer William R. Curtsinger spent months aboard the research vessel Hero in Antarctica.

The photo on the magazine's cover featured oil fields on fire, photographed by Steve McCurry.

[13] In the November 2016 issue, Joel Achenbach wrote the cover story titled "The Race to the Red Planet", about humanity's treks to Mars.