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The Space Shuttle Endeavor is suspended under the Mate/Demate Device as it is prepared to be loaded on the 747 Carrier Aircraft at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Canter at Edwards Air Force Base just after sunset on December 5, 2008. |
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Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the continental United States with an elevation of 14,497 feet. | |||
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20081005 Whitney Portal contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: one Pine Peak: Lone Pine Peak is 12,944 feet in elevation.
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The Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress Mothership launched three X-15s and three lifting bodies from 1959 to 1969, |
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The veiw from the 85-foot tall el Mirador clock tower at the Santa Barbara County Court House. |
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The Grandstand is an outcrop of rock in the middle of Racetrack Playa, where the rocks move when nobody is watching. It was a potential emergency landing site for the North American X-15 rocket plane. | |||
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20081006 Racetrack Playa and the Grandstand contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Lippincott Lead Mine: The Lippincott Lead Mine is nestled in the south end of Racetrack Valley.
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Barringer Crater, more popularly known as Meteor Crater, was created by the impact of a meteor about 50,000 years ago. This 360 degree panorama took a few tries to stitch properly. Overlap at the zenith confused Stitcher. I fixed the problem by removing the top row of images from the panorama. |
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The University of California at Santa Barbara is visible at left. Goleta Beach was featured in the I'm a Blond segment of Earth Girls re Easy. |
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Ubehebe Crater is a phreato-magmatic explosion crater, the result of hot magma heating ground water and triggering a steam explosion. | |||
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Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley contains 3 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Litle Playa: Multi-colored sediments accumulate in the bottom of Ubehebe Crater.
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Century series jet fighters are displayed just outside the west gate of Edwards Air Force Base: North American YF-100 Super Sabre 52-5755, McDonnell F-101B Voodoo 58-0288, Convair TF-102A Delta Dagger 54-1353, Lockheed F-104A Starfighter 56-0860, Republic F0195D Thunderchief 61-0146, and convair F-106B Delta Dart 59-0158. They were joined recently by McDonnell Douglas YC-15 prototype N15YC. | |||
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20081023 Century Circle, Edwards Air Force Base contains 2 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: McDonnell F-101B Voodoo 58-0288: McDonnell F-101B Voodoo 58-0288
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The Inyo Mountains form the backdrop for this sunset view from Horseshoe Meadow Road at an elevation of 8,400 feet in the Sierra Nevada, high above Lone Pine and Owens Lake. | |||
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20081005 Owens Valley contains 8 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Lone Pine: Lone Pine on Highway 395
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