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A lone desert Joshua tree greeted the arrival of Space Shuttle Endeavour at Edwards Air Force Base, California, May...
iss071e082698 (May 16, 2024) --- The Atlantic coastal desert region of the Sahara Desert in the African nation of...
Made from fossilized microbes and sediment, these rounded rocks are stromatolites that were found in a dry lakebed...
The impact of an asteroid or comet several hundred million years ago left scars in the landscape that are still...
This topographic map acquired by NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission SRTM from data collected on February 16, 2000...
The light corner of the image from NASA EarthKAM is Lake Torrens, an ephemeral salt lake in South Australia. The...
This image, taken April 9, 2010, shows a helicopter carrying an engineering test model of the landing radar for NASA...
The prominent circular feature seen here is known as the Richat Structure, in the Sahara desert of Mauritania. This...
NASA Terra spacecraft shows vast alluvial fan blossoms across the desolate landscape between two mountain ranges...
On May 30, 2013, NASA Terra spacecraft acquired this image of the largest solar plant of its kind in the world...
Michael Malin, left, principal investigator for three science cameras on NASA Curiosity Mars rover, comments to a...
Located 600 km south of Algiers, Algeria in the heart of the Sahara Desert, the five ksour fortified villages of the...
Night shot of the 70m antenna at Goldstone, California. The parabolic dish is 70m 230 ft. in diameter. The Goldstone...
Goldstone 111.5-foot 34-meter Beam Waveguide tracks a spacecraft as it comes into view. The Goldstone Deep Space...
This image from NASA Terra satellite in August, 2000, shows the northern tip of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez and...
Barringer Crater, also known as Meteor Crater, is a 1,300-meter 0.8 mile diameter, 174-meter 570-feet deep hole in...
From the desert to the mountains to the sea, this image acquired by NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission SRTM in...
The impact of an asteroid or comet several hundred million years ago left scars in the landscape that are still...
California Garlock Fault, marking the northwestern boundary of the Mojave Desert, lies at the foot of the mountains,...
Beam Wave Guide antennas at Goldstone, known as the Beam Waveguide Cluster. They are located in an area at Goldstone...
Bright, arc-shaped limestone hills and complex, branching drainage patterns dominate this three-frequency space...
In the high plateau of southwestern Bolivia, two large salt deserts, or playas, are located between the eastern and...