Palm trees cast lacy contours against a star-speckled sky in Coromandel Forest Park, New ZEALand. Sprawled across 180,387 acres (73,000 hectares) in northeastern New Zealand, Coromandel Forest Park is home to stunning vistas: luxuriant forests, velvety fields, gnarled volcanoes, and rushing rivers.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Case of the Missing Carbon," February 2004, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Peter Essick
(意译)：棕榈树呈现花边的轮廓，相反产于印度东部的乌木（Coromandel）森林公园有一些斑点样的星空，新西兰。乌木蔓生180，387英亩在新西兰东北地区，乌木森林公园是极好的街景：丰产的森林，天鹅绒般的原野，扭曲的火山，和许多急流。
引自“美国国家地理杂志”：当天的图片。
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No longer slithering, a snake skeleton lies silent in Belizes Chiquibul Cave system. A labyrinthine series of limestone caves carved by rainwater and the subterranean Chiquibul River, the cave system in western Belize is home to thousands of intact skeletons dating back 10,000 years or more.
意译：不久以前，一条蛇的骨骼静静地卧在洪都拉斯的首都伯利兹城的（Chiquibul）洞穴里。那是一个似乎迷宫的石灰石洞穴，被雨水雕刻在地下的（Chiquibul）河流，这条蛇的骨骼经过考察存在超过一万年之久。
National Geographic assistant editor Melville Bell Grosvenor made the first aerial color photograph when he took this shot of the Statue of Liberty by circling the monument in a Navy Airship ZM C2. The photograph, which was published in the September 1930 issue, led the National Geographic Society to adopt the Finlay process, then the newest method for producing color photographs. Photograph by Melville B. Grosvenor
意译：国家地理杂志的编辑助理（格罗夫纳•贝尔）曾经制作第一幅航空摄影彩色图片，当时他摄影的是美国纽约市的自由女神雕像纪念碑，是乘美国海军飞船ZM C2进行的。图片在1930年9月出版发行，由国家地理杂志加以处理，用新近的方法改进彩色图片。
Bright red-and-blue facial markings identify this mandrill as a mature male. Mandrills are the worlds largest monkeys.
Photograph by Tim Laman
意译：那明亮的红－篮色的面部的记号，可以确定这只山魈是一只成熟的雄性山魈。它们是全世界最大的猴子类。
Every step is critical on Mount Everest. The treacherous Khumbu Icefall has taken the lives of many climbers on their first day as they head to their first camp.
Photograph by Bobby Model
意译：攀登珠穆朗玛峰的每一步都是危险的，最为危险的是冰雪裂缝、突然冰崩落――已经使许多的登山者丧命在他们的第一天，因为他们要求首先到达扎营地。
Photo of the Day
Aerial View of African Elephants, Kenya, 1999
Photograph by George Steinmet
A herd of elephants makes its way through swamp grass in Kenyas Amboseli National Park. Established as a national park in 1974, the 151-square-mile (392-square-kilometer) park at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in southwest Kenya is home to more than 450 animal species, including elephants, wildebeests, cranes, and egrets.
意译：当天的图片。航拍观赏非洲大象群，肯尼亚，1999年。
一群非洲象前进在草和沼泽地，那是肯尼亚国家公园。建立于1974年，面积达到392平方公里，位于肯尼亚南部的乞力马扎罗山，那里超过450类动物的家园，包括非洲象群、羚羊群、鹤群和白鹭群。
引自：“美国国家地理杂志”――当天的图片（2007-10-29）
A leopard seal swims in turquoise waters just below the surface as a jagged Antarctic ice floe looms in the background.
The leopard seal, dubbed a "fierce, handsome brute" by a member of the famed 1914 Shackleton expedition, is a top Antarctic predator: fast, agile, voracious, and large, reaching some 12 feet (4 meters) in length and weighing more than a thousand pounds (450 kilograms).
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Deadly Beauty," November 2006, National Geographic magazine)
意译：一只美洲海豹在绿色水中游泳，刚好它是在南极冰的浮冰下面游泳，隆起的南极冰山是它的背景。美洲海豹有一个称号：“凶猛的、英俊的、残忍的”，是由南极探险家在1914年命名的，它是南极洲最厉害的食肉动物：巨大的、狼吞虎咽的、敏捷的游得快。它有4米长，体重达到450公斤。
Patterns in Nature: Aerial Views
Icebergs jam a meltwater lake at the foot of Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana.
Photograph by James Balog
意译：通过航空观察自然界。冰山和冰雪融化的湖面在美国蒙大拿州的冰河国家公园。
