Child, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2000

child runs through a bleak village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Conservationist J. Michael Fay trekked some 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers) across central Africa as part of a yearlong survey of the continent's remaining wild places. Fay designed the route of his Megatransect to skirt towns and villages by as wide a margin as possible, but he occasionally passed through one to survey its impact on surrounding wildlife populations.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Megatransect," October 2000, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do dia NGEO,The Needles, Black Hills, South Dakota

Rock climbers descend the spire of Tricouni Nail in the Needles of South Dakota’s Black Hills. Popular with tourists and climbers, the Needles is full of eroded granite pillars, towers, and spires.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Secret Worlds of the Black Hills," October 2004, National Geographic Adventure magazine)

Photograph by Bobby Model

Foto do Dia NGEO, Virtual Surgery, NASA Ames Research Center, California, 2001

A student at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, practices virtual surgery on a three-dimensional image of a rat. NASA hopes that one day such tools will help coach space travelers through medical procedures on fellow astronauts.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Surviving in Space," January 2001, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Cary Wolinsky
A student at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, practices virtual surgery on a three-dimensional image of a rat. NASA hopes that one day such tools will help coach space travelers through medical procedures on fellow astronauts.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Surviving in Space," January 2001, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Cary Wolinsky

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Um estudante no centro de pesquisa no Mountain View, Califórnia da NASA Ames, pratica a cirurgia virtual em uma imagem tridimensional de um rato. A NASA espera que um dia tais ferramentas ajudarão o ônibus a espaçar viajantes com os procedimentos médicos em astronautas companheiros.
(A foto disparou na atribuição para, mas não publicado dentro, “sobrevivendo no espaço,” janeiro 2001, compartimento geográfico nacional)
Fotografia por Cary Wolinsky

Foto do Dia Ngeo 08 03 2008

Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, 1999

Photograph by David Alan Harvey

Sunlight filters over the forested seaside cliffs of Trinidad and Tobago. The Caribbean islands, which lie just beyond the tail end of the Windward Antilles, are a study in contrasts. Densely populated Trinidad is an industrial giant with a thriving nightlife; a two-hour ferry ride away, Tobago is a relatively undeveloped, easygoing island that specializes in relaxation.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Limin' Time," September 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

Foto do Dia NGEO 07 03 2008

Coffee Break, Arizona, United States, 1996

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi

For many people, diners—and their colorful employees—represent relics of a slower, gentler era. Historians trace the first diner to 1872 in Providence, Rhode Island, where pressman Walter Scott sold food from a horse-drawn wagon parked outside the Providence Journal newspaper office. Nostalgic for the "good old days," Americans today are fueling a 21st-century diner revival.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Romancing the Road," September 1997, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do Dia NatGeo 01 03 2008

Bison Herd, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1996
Photograph by Raymond Gehman
Bison thrive in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park years after fires swept through more than a third of the park. Ecologists now regard wildfires as natural and beneficial in forest ecosystems. They return nutrients to the soil by burning dead or decaying matter, burn off disease-ridden plants and insects, and clear thick canopies and undergrowth, allowing a new generation of seedlings to grow.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Essential Element of Fire," September 1996, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do Dia NatGeo 02 03 2008

Omo Region, Ethiopia, 2000
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
In southern Ethiopia's Omo region, a Hamar child peeks out from under her mother's shawl. The Hamar are among the most elaborately attired of Ethiopia's ethnic groups. Daily dress may include piles of beaded necklaces and metal bracelets, beaded belts and headbands, leather skirts or loincloths, and elaborate, sculptured hairstyles.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Enigma of Beauty," January 2000, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do Dia NGEO 28 02 2008

Ruins of Nemrud Dagh, Turkey, 2000

Photograph by Reza

The sun sets on the first-century ruins of Nemrud Dagh, Turkey, millennia after it set on the ancient kingdom itself. Built by King Antiochus I in southeastern Turkey, the kingdom is one of the best preserved but least known ruins of the Late Hellenistic period. Its monuments are a story in stone depicting the king, his family and ancestors, and their interaction with the gods.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Wrath of the Gods: Centuries of Upheaval Along the Anatolian Fault," July 2000, National Geographic magazine)

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Esta, eu gostei.

Alessandro Souza

Foto do Dia NGEO 27 02 2008

Berber Woman, Taarart, Morocco, 2005

Photograph by Alexandra Boulat

A Berber woman shows her hand, stained dark with henna for a wedding in the Moroccan town of Taarart. There are about 25 million Berbers—also known as Amazigh—living in Morocco and Algeria. They trace their roots back thousands of years before the seventh century Arab conquest that brought Islam to the region's mountains and deserts.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Among the Berbers: A Journey Through Morocco's High Atlas Mountains," January 2005, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do Dia NGEO 21 02 2008

Pontoon Rafting, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, 2006

Photograph by Michael Nichols

Rafters aboard a motorized pontoon boat get a thorough soaking on the rain-swollen Colorado River in Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park. Each year, some 22,000 visitors board rubber paddle rafts, oar-powered wooden dories, and luxury motorized rafts to ply this storied stretch of the Colorado's waters.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Unexpected Canyon," January 2006, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do Dia NGEO 19 02 2008

Cabbage Coral, Kadavu Island, Fiji, 2004

Photograph by Tim Laman

Cabbage coral provides refuge to a bigeye fish in Great Astrolabe Reef off Fiji's Kadavu Island. More than 330 islands speckle Fijian waters, which hold nearly 4,000 square miles (10,350 square kilometers) of reef, a vital trove of marine biodiversity.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Fiji's Rainbow Reefs," November 2004, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do Dia NGEO 18 02 2008

Pines and Palm Trees, Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, 1996

Photograph by Raymond Gehman

Sunset bathes Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve in an orange glow. The preserve, 720,000 acres (291,375 hectares) of primordial swamp on Florida's southwest coast, is home to the elusive Florida panther and an impressive diversity of birds, among other unique fauna and flora. But human development in and around the area threatens to send this fragile ecosystem into a tailspin.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "In Big Cypress Country," March/April 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

Foto do Dia NGEO 17 02 2008

Foto do Dia NGEO 15 02 2008

Ancient Sculpture, Angkor, Cambodia, 1968

Photograph by W. E. Garrett

Centuries of dormancy allowed the Cambodian jungle ample time to consume the work of Khmer artists in the sprawling Angkor temple complex. Built beginning in A.D. 800, Angkor was the capital of the Khmer kingdom until about A.D. 1430, when its leaders abandoned the site to establish a new capital at Phnom Penh.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Mekong: River of Terror and Hope," December 1968, National Geographic magazine)

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Caros Coelgas,

Chamo a atenção de vocês para o ano que foi produzida esta imagem o ano de 1968.

Abraço à todos,
Alessandro Souza

Foto do Dia NGEO 14 02 2008

Common Loons, Moose Lake, Wyoming, 1988

Photograph by Michael Quinton

Two common loons in checkered breeding plumage engage in a courtship ritual in Wyoming's Moose Lake. Loon pairs are generally monogamous and highly territorial, emitting their haunting yodels during the breeding season to ward off intruders and violently attacking any that come too close.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Common Loon Cries for Help," April 1989, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do Dia NatGeo 13 02 2008

Aurora Borealis, Acadia National Park, Maine, 2005

Photograph by Michael Melford

Darkness settles over Jordan Pond in Maine's Acadia National Park as northern lights swirl above. "It was my last night in Acadia, and I was setting up for a long exposure of starlight in the night sky," recalls photographer Michael Melford, "and this brilliant red aurora appeared. I was in a panic to make sure I caught it."

(Text from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Autumn in Acadia National Park," November 2005, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do Dia NatGeo 12 02 2008

Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia, 2001

Photograph by Alexandra Boulat

A woman walks among the bell-shaped spires of Indonesia's Borobudur—the world's largest Buddhist temple. Built in the jungles of Java during the eighth and ninth centuries A.D., this ancient pilgrimage site lay abandoned for centuries until it was rediscovered and restored in the early 1900s.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Indonesia: Living Dangerously," March 2001, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do Dia NatGeo 11 02 2008

Coral Reef, Fiji, Indonesia, 2005

Photograph by Tim Laman

Without a strobe light to animate its riot of colors, this Fijian reef in 45 feet (14 meters) of water remains as a fish would see it. Red light, with its longer wavelengths, dissipates at about 30 feet (10 meters), leaving smoky blues and muted yellows to dominate.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Why Are Coral Reefs So Colorful?" May 2005, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do Dia Ngeo 10 02 2008

Burmese Boy, Nanyung, Myanmar, 2003

Photograph by Maria Stenzel

A boy bathes in a mist-shrouded river in Nanyung, Myanmar (Burma). Despite rich natural resources, Myanmar remains impoverished and repressed, the result of military regimes that have ruled the nation for more than 40 years.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Blood, Sweat, and Toil Along the Burma Road," November 2003, National Geographic magazine)

Foto do Dia Ngeo 09 02 2008

Pink Anemonefish, Kosrae Island, Micronesia, 2007

Photograph by Tim Laman

Two pink anemonefish peek from the safety of their anemone home on a reef off Micronesia's Kosrae Island. The island's remoteness and a concerted effort by locals to preserve marine wildlife there endows Kosrae with some of the most pristine reefs on Earth.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Mangroves: Forests of the Tide," February 2007, National Geographic magazine)