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Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) tests procedures and equipment that could one day be a part of...
This ASTER sub-scene covers an area of 12 x 15 km in NW India in the Thar Desert. The sand dunes of the Thar Desert...
This image, acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft, shows the Namib Desert, a coastal desert in southern Africa. This...
At first glance a dry lake bed in the southern California desert seems like the last place to prepare to study ice....
Desert Patterns - April 13th, 2003 Description: Seen through the "eyes" of a satellite sensor, ribbons of...
The DC-8 research aircraft casting its shadow on the ground in California's Mojave Desert during an IceBridge...
Fog is the only source of moisture for desert dwelling animals and plants living in the Namib Desert sand dune...
One of the driest regions on Earth, the Namib Desert, Namibia, Africa (23.0N, 15.0E) lies adjacent to the Atlantic...
SL2-03-126 (June 1973) --- A color infrared photograph of the Los Angeles County and Kern County area, taken from...
STS049-92-071 (13 May 1992) --- The STS-49 crew aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour captured this...
STS059-220-041 (9-20 April 1994) --- View to the south by southwest across the southern Gobi Desert (China) across...
Chuquicamata, in Chile's Atacama Desert, is the largest open pit copper mine in the world, by excavated volume. The...
Practicing Artemis Moonwalks in the desert, a developmental milestone for our lunar-roving robot, and previewing our...
STS054-152-189 (13-19 Jan. 1993) --- This near-vertical color photograph shows the very diverse landscape that is...
Two members of a field team set up cameras in the Nevada desert in February 2020, as part of a simulated rover...
This color image of the Simpson Desert in Australia was obtained by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft at about 2:30 p.m....
STS035-501-007 (2-10 Dec. 1990) --- The STS-35 crewmembers aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia...
Desert Survival Training with Astronauts Lousma, Ling, and Pogue. PASCO, WA
Desert Survival Training Pasco, Washington - Duke, Mattingly, Col. Bohart, Swigert
SpaceX performed its fourteenth overall parachute test supporting Crew Dragon development. This most recent exercise...
SpaceX performed its fourteenth overall parachute test supporting Crew Dragon development. This most recent exercise...
SpaceX performed its fourteenth overall parachute test supporting Crew Dragon development. This most recent exercise...
SpaceX performed its fourteenth overall parachute test supporting Crew Dragon development. This most recent exercise...
This is a C-band, VV polarization radar image of the Namib desert in southern Namibia, near the coast of South West...