Photo of the Day 316

Nasca Lines, Nasca, Peru, 1964

Photograph by Bates Littlehales

An aerial view shows the famed Nasca Lines of southern Peru. These images, enormous geoglyphs etched into the desert some 2,000 years ago, are so large they can only be discerned from the sky. Some are more than 1,000 feet (300 meters) long.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Five Worlds of Peru," February 1964, National Geographic magazine)