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A back view of the Lunar Electric Rover (LER) during the Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) remote field...
This spaceborne radar image shows part of the Mojave Desert in the vicinity of Barstow, California and reveals...
Equipped with state-of-the-art technology to test and evaluate communication, navigation, and surveillance systems,...
STS054-151-009 (13-19 Jan 1993) --- This large format camera's view shows the circular volcanic structure of the...
From left, former Desert Christian students Logan Francisco, Kyler Stephens and Jonathan Lokos and NASA Armstrong...
The unusual design of the Proteus high-altitude aircraft, incorporating a gull-wing shape for its main wing and a...
NASA's X-38 glided high over California desert test ranges as it descended from 37,500 feet to land on Rogers Dry...
SL2-03-192 (22 June 1973) --- Lake Mead, Nevada, (36.0N, 114.5E) where the water from the Colorado River empties...
This radar image is of an area thought to contain the ruins of the ancient settlement of Niya. It is located in the...
STS032-85-029 (12 Jan. 1990) --- (ORIENT PHOTO WITH COLUMBIA'S CARGO BAY IN LOWER CENTER). This 70mm frame was taken...
A launch abort engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne is hot-fired during tests in the Mojave Desert in California. The...
A launch abort engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne is hot-fired during tests in the Mojave Desert in California. The...
Egypt's High Aswan Dam on the Nile River at the first cataracts, Nile River, (24.0N, 33.0E) was completed in 1971 to...
S63-06447 (15-16 May 1963) --- The Great Indian Desert, located west of New Delhi, India, as photographed from the...
iss073e0511487 (Aug. 20, 2025) --- A portion of the hot, arid Namib Desert near the Atlantic coast, with its sand...
iss074e0315662 (Feb. 13, 2026) --- A portion of the Atacama Desert along Peru’s southern Pacific coast, featuring...
iss074e0362030 (March 5, 2026) --- Iquique, Chile, with a population of over 230,000, lies at the base of a steep...
Late night in the desert: Goldstone 230-foot 70-meter antenna tracks spacecraft day and night. This photograph was...
This prominent circular feature, known as the Richat Structure, in the Sahara desert of Mauritania is often noted by...
Two NASA Dryden F/A-18s flown by research pilots Frank Batteas and Nils Larson were captured by photographer Lori...
Dr. Alexandra Loubeau, one of the technical co-leads for sonic boom community testing for the Quesst mission, sets...
On February 15, 2015 the Desert Sunlight solar project in California’s Mojave Desert became operational. This image...
As the sun sets over the high desert, NASA technicians on mobile high-lifts prepare the shuttle Endeavour for towing...
STS062-151-182Z (4-18 March 1994) --- This east-looking view shows most of the east-west extent of the country of...