White Sands
Missile range locale
White Sands is a region of white gypsum sand dunes in southern New Mexico, preserved as White Sands National Park.
The stark white landscape appears in photographs and films as an otherworldly desert.
White Sands Missile Range, adjacent to the park, is a military testing facility where the first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945.
- Trinity testInitial nuclear weapon explosion
- atomic ageEra of harnessed fission
- missile rangeProjectile's maximum travel distance
- New MexicoSouthwestern U.S. state
- AlbuquerqueNew Mexico's largest city
Carlsbad Caverns · glare · Santa Fe · Taos · otherworldly · lunar landscape · photo op · desert dunes · dune · crunch · nuclear · blinding · test · footprints · monument · stark · ripples · military
- New Mexico LandsCarlsbad Caverns
- Southern New MexicoAlamogordo, Sunspot, Weed, Chaparral
- American desertsMojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Death Valley, Painted Desert, Mojave
- desertsSahara, Gobi, Mojave, Namib, Kalahari
- national parksYellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Everglades, Glacier National Park
- natural wondersnorthern lights, aurora borealis, auroras, rainbows, Great Barrier Reef
landscape type
White SandsEverglades
Florida's vast subtropical preserve
tundra · rainforest · jungle · Amazon rainforest · ocean
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