National Geographic USA - August 2022

136 Pages·2022·146.7 MB·English

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F U RT H E R
AUGUST 2022
C O N T E N T S On the Cover
Sunset casts a fiery glow
over Stonehenge, where
researchers are still mak-
ing discoveries about the
millennia-old monument.
REUBEN WU; IMAGE MADE WITH
23 LAYERED EXPOSURES
15
P R O O F E X P L O R E
THE BIG IDEA
The Immortal
Marks of Stars
An artist creatively
preserves the work
22
of trailblazing
women astronomers.
6 BY LIZ KRUESI
DECODER
Superpower
BREAKTHROUGHS
A grand experiment in
Nature’s Tastemaker
nuclear fusion, which
Petunias may hold the
supplies emission-free
key to formulating
energy, is gearing up
all-natural versions of
in southern France.
popular flavorings.
BY MICHAEL GRESHKO
BY HICKS WOGAN
AND JASON TREAT
CLOSER LOOK
Borscht Belt
Revisited
Lessons and Levity A road trip through the
Memorizing the Quran Catskills reveals rem-
in schools across Tur- nants of summers past
key, girls are focused and discoveries about
and disciplined. But the area today.
sometimes they just BY NINA STROCHLIC
want to have fun.
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SABIHA ÇIMEN Space Junk Hits the Moon Eco-Friendly Camping
A U G U S T | CONTENTS
F E A T U R E S Britain’s Stone Age Under the Big Top Where the
Building Boom Horseshoe crabs are Myth Lives
Stonehenge and other survivors, but we’re Unorthodox behavior,
awe-inspiring mon- putting them at risk. wild landscapes: It’s
uments rose across BY AMY MCKEEVER the Texas of our imagi-
Britain during its late PHOTOGRAPHS BY nation, realized in
Neolithic era. Now new LAURENT BALLESTA..P. 74 Big Bend National Park.
technologies are help- BY ROBERT DRAPER
ing archaeologists solve India’s Energy PHOTOGRAPHS BY
some of these markers’ Challenge BRYAN SCHUTMAAT
many mysteries. How will the nation ......................................P. 112
BY ROFF SMITH responsibly meet
PHOTOGRAPHS BY growing demand? ABOVE: One of three main
gorges in Texas’s Big Bend
REUBEN WU AND BY YUDHIJIT
National Park, Boquillas
ALICE ZOO BHATTACHARJEE Canyon features limestone
ART BY FERNANDO G. PHOTOGRAPHS BY formations and side can-
BAPTISTA ....................P. 34 ARKO DATTO ..............P. 84 yons for exploration.
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A U G U S T | FROM THE EDITOR
Stonehenge As You’ve
A CENTURY
OF VIEWS Never Seen It
THE PREHISTORIC CLUSTER of standing
stones known as Stonehenge has
intrigued and mystified observers
for centuries. The impressive monu-
ment has drawn millions of visitors to
England’s Salisbury Plain.
Throughout our publishing history,
National Geographic has brought
images and stories of Stonehenge to
readers in new and exciting ways.
The magazine’s very first picture
of the megaliths is the black-and-white
aerial photo to the right. Published in
May 1922, it was made possible by the Martin Edström. He and his team It’s been 100 years since
the magazine published
cutting-edge technology of that era: flew a drone to make more than 7,000
its first photo of Stone-
the airplane. images of the site from all angles and
henge (above). Now our
For this issue’s cover story, we processed them into the digital replica digital storytellers have
deployed the latest tools to bring you you see at the top of the page. made a high-resolution 3D
model (top) that’s become
Stonehenge as you’ve never seen it. We We’ve been pushing the boundaries
a mobile augmented reality
assigned two inventive photographers: of storytelling for 134 years, and I’m experience. Called Stone-
Alice Zoo documented people’s connec- pleased to share our latest work with henge AR and available
on Instagram, it lets users
tions to Neolithic sites, and Reuben Wu you. Go to @natgeo on Instagram to
interact with tabletop and
turned landscapes into other worldly explore the immersive model of Stone- full-scale models of the site,
realms steeped in mystery. henge, and visit ngm.com to see more toggle through different
solstice times, and even
Then we decided to go further: to images and video of the site.
take selfies as they “visit.”
create an immersive, high-resolution Thank you for reading National
3D model of the site using photo gram- Geographic.
metry. We enlisted National Geo- David Brindley
graphic Explorer and photographer Interim Editor in Chief
IMAGES: MARTIN EDSTRÖM (TOP); CENTRAL AEROPHOTO CO. LTD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION

P R O O F
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
VOL. 242 NO. 2
LESSONS
AND LEVITY
At a Quran school in
Istanbul, Turkey, a student
named Zeynep and a class-
mate spend a study break
performing antics under an
orange tree. The photog-
rapher attended a similar
school when she was young.
STO RY A N D P H OTO G R A P H S LOOKING
BY SABIHA ÇIMEN AT THE
EARTH
Documenting the experiences FROM
of girls memorizing the Quran, EVERY
a photographer celebrates their POSSIBLE
journey and revisits her youth. ANGLE
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