"Sophia still wants to fly to the moon. Since astronaut training is many years away, we decided to travel 2,600 miles from home to the place on Earth most similar to the moon’s surface. Her sister, Clara, joined," writes Your Shot photographer Juan Osorio. "Together, they will explore many places in preparation for the final journey. This image was taken at Meteor Crater in Arizona - nearly a mile wide and deep enough to fit the Washington Monument."
"Sophia still wants to fly to the moon. Since astronaut training is many years away, we decided to travel 2,600 miles from home to the place on Earth most similar to the moon’s surface. Her sister, Clara, joined," writes Your Shot photographer Juan Osorio. "Together, they will explore many places in preparation for the final journey. This image was taken at Meteor Crater in Arizona - nearly a mile wide and deep enough to fit the Washington Monument."
Photograph by Juan Osorio, National Geographic Your Shot

Your best photos of the week, July 26, 2019

Each week, our editors choose stunning photos submitted by members of Your Shot, National Geographic's photo community.

Photography documents specific moments for generations to come, connecting us all across space and time. It gives us the power to travel through time to see moments that happened yesterday or 50 years ago, when the first person put his foot on the moon.

Your Shot photographer Juan Osorio always finds a fun way to photograph for Your Shot assignments. This past week, his astronaut-aspiring daughters made their appearance again “on the moon” in Arizona. If not for those early images of space travel decades ago, the current generations might not be as enamored with science, space, and travel to other worlds. Photography did that for us.

Sometimes an image’s visual narrative is metaphorical, slightly more nuanced

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