FOTOS

Refugee boys wrap themselves with Afghan reblankets to avoid the evening cold while sitting in a wooden cart as they look at a group of girls playing hopscotch in a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on November 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Muh

The dancing light of the auroras on Saturn. Seen from space, an aurora appears as a ring of glowing gases circling a planet's polar region. Auroral displays are initiated when charged particles in space collide with a planet's magnetic field.

A Yawalapiti boy dips his head into the Xingu River in the Xingu National Park, Mato Grosso State, on May 9, 2012.(Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino) # 

A woman cries tears of happiness near the newly-unveiled statue of Dr. John Garang de Mabior, leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, before the independence ceremony of the Republic of South Sudan in Juba, South Sudan, on July 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Burton) #

When he wandered into an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan in December 1984, National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry captured one of the most famous portraits the world had ever seen. The Afghan girl with the haunting green eyes captivated everyone. That captivation proved, once again, the power of photography to open eyes—and hearts and minds—with a single image.