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In the high plateau of southwestern Bolivia, two large salt deserts, or playas, are located between the eastern and...
The rocks at Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, Calif., are famous. Photo credit: NASA/GSFC/Maggie McAdam To read a...
The main mystery on Racetrack Playa is how the rocks move, but another, possibly greater mystery, is why some trails...
This is a Hygrochron sensor. Sensors were buried at different depths, to see how the temperature and moisture levels...
The rocks are famous because they move, leaving tell-tale trails in the clay, like this one. This happens at several...
The summer interns with the 2010 Lunar and Planetary Science Academy (LPSA) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center...
Four LPSA interns test the clay at Bonnie Claire Playa, another location where the rocks move, to see how quickly...
Intern Kyle Yawn marked the boundaries of this trail by placing pushpins into cracks in the clay. Now, he...
In some cases, the trail starts narrow and gets wider, as in this photo. Photo credit: NASA/GSFC/Leva McIntire/LPSA...
Sometimes, a gunfight breaks out, like this one between (left) Mindy Krzykowski and (right) Leva McIntire. This is...
There's nothing special about these rocks, which are ordinary dolomite from the surrounding mountains. The rocks...
The trails have some curious features. Sometimes the clay gets pushed into a mound at the trail's end, as in this...
This image of abstract shapes is comprised numerous subparallel, very long, orange colored linear dunes and patchy...
Data from the sensors were downloaded, and then the sensors were reburied. The LPSA team plans to publish a research...
A small level is used to see if the trail is tilted upward or downward. In most cases where a rock has moved, the...
Many of the moving rocks are about the size of a loaf of bread and weigh about 25 pounds. Interns Kristopher...
The trails can be straight, or they can curve. Sometimes, two trails run alongside each other. Those two lines...
Some of the moving rocks are large. This one is about 10 inches tall. Researchers in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
To investigate the rocks and trails, the interns collect many kinds of data, such as trail length, width, and depth;...
Researchers think that water, ice, and wind work together to move the stones. In this photo, the students dig up...
This group photo of the LPSA interns and trip leaders was taken at Tea Kettle Junction in Death Valley, Calif....
This view of northern Patagonia, near El Cain, Argentina shows complexly eroded volcanic terrain, with basalt mesas,...
STS059-L09-162 (9-20 April 1994) --- Orient with the snow-covered mountains (Sierra Nevada of California) in the...
ISS011-E-09680 (27 June 2005) --- Searles Lake, California is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition...