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This pair of images from space shows a portion of the southern Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula in the country...
ISS012-E-18779 (28 Feb. 2006) --- Winter in the Dasht-e-Lut Desert, eastern Iran is featured in this image...
ISS032-E-009123 (26 July 2012) --- Pyramids at Giza, Egypt are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition...
MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. – In the Mojave Desert in California, students from Merritt Island High School in Florida...
Death Valley, California is a desert valley in the Northern Mojave Desert. During the summer months, Death Valley...
STS106-718-056 (11 September 2000) --- One of the STS-106 crew members on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis used a...
ISS022-E-012224 (15 Dec. 2009) --- Evaporation ponds in the Salar de Atacama, Chile are featured in this image...
Empty Quarter - February 1st, 20003 Description: White pinpricks of cloud cast ebony shadows on the Rub' al Khali,...
ISS009-E-05953 (7 May 2004) --- The Pinacates Biosphere Reserve is featured in this image photographed by an...
MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. – In the Mojave Desert in California, students from Merritt Island High School in Florida...
ISS009-E-05944 (7 May 2004) --- The Pinacates Biosphere Reserve is featured in this image photographed by an...
ISS017-E-009598 (18 June 2008) --- The Sentinel Volcanic Field in Arizona is featured in this image photographed by...
ISS036-E-025802 (26 July 2013) --- A nighttime view of southwestern Saudi Arabia is featured in this image...
ISS040-E-008209 (6 June 2014) --- Okavango inland delta in northern Botswana is featured in this image photographed...
ISS038-E-047388 (14 Feb. 2014) --- As the International Space Station passed over the deserts of central Iran,...
NASA’s F-15 research test bed will expose the Swept Wing Laminar Flow test article to speeds up to Mach 2, matching...
A NASA King Air successfully tested the Advanced Data Acquisition and Telemetry System during a recent series of...
The Ikhana aircraft is flying a TAMDAR Edge probe that could significantly improve weather models and forecasts.
NASA photographer Jim Ross captured this shot while pilot Troy Asher flew inverted in an F-15D. The F-15B is seen...
41G-120-005 (5-13 Oct 1984) --- The Kyzyl Kum Desert of the Kazakh and Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republics. The...
S66-54530 --- Libyan Desert area of Sudan, foreground, and the United Arab Republic (Egypt), at lower left, as seen...
NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance leaders brief news media following the Launch Readiness Review for Boeing’s...
Live launch coverage of Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) to the International Space Station for NASA’s...
S65-18741 (23 March 1965) --- Astronaut John W. Young took this picture during the Gemini-Titan 3 three-orbit...