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Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Desert , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education...
Spaceward Bound Program in Atacama Desert; shown here is a realtime webcast from Yungay, Chile vis satellite...
STS080-745-004 (19 Nov.-7 Dec. 1996) --- A view to the west showing Asia in the foreground and Africa in the...
41G-121-189 (5-13 Oct 1984) --- The Kalihari Desert is visible in the foreground of this photograph covering three...
This image of Saudi Arabia shows a great sea of linear dunes in part of the Rub' al Khali, or the Empty Quarter....
STS072-738-036 (11-20 Jan. 1996) --- The astronauts used a 70mm handheld camera to expose this frame of the...
Spaceward Bound Program in Atacama Desert; shown here is a realtime webcast from Yungay, Chile vis satellite...
This composite image is of an area thought to contain the ruins of the ancient settlement of Niya. It is located in...
ISS012-E-21250 (2 March 2006) --- Dust and smog in northeast China are featured in this image photographed by an...
What connects Earth's largest, hottest desert to its largest tropical rainforest? The Sahara Desert is a...
In the far southeast corner of Libya, in the Libyan Desert, lie the uplifted massifs of Jebel Awenat and Jebel...
The space shuttle Discovery atop NASA's modified 747 is captured over the Mojave Desert while being ferried from...
For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic...
The Desert Research and Technology Studies (DesertRATS) is one of NASA’s analog missions to test hardware and...
The Desert Research and Technology Studies (DesertRATS) is one of NASA’s analog missions to test hardware and...
The Desert Research and Technology Studies (DesertRATS) is one of NASA’s analog missions to test hardware and...
The Desert Research and Technology Studies (DesertRATS) is one of NASA’s analog missions to test hardware and...
The Desert Research and Technology Studies (DesertRATS) is one of NASA’s analog missions to test hardware and...
The Desert Research and Technology Studies (DesertRATS) is one of NASA’s analog missions to test hardware and...
The Desert Research and Technology Studies (DesertRATS) is one of NASA’s analog missions to test hardware and...
The Desert Research and Technology Studies (DesertRATS) is one of NASA’s analog missions to test hardware and...
The Desert Research and Technology Studies (DesertRATS) is one of NASA’s analog missions to test hardware and...
The Desert Research and Technology Studies (DesertRATS) is one of NASA’s analog missions to test hardware and...
The Desert Research and Technology Studies (DesertRATS) is one of NASA’s analog missions to test hardware and...