White Sands Missile Range
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White Sands Missile Range is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico. The range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing a
Ground-based electro-optical deep-space surveillance telescopes performing space surveillance mission.
1982 Space Shuttle Columbia landing at Northrop Strip
White Sands National Park
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White Sands National Park is a national park of the United States located in New Mexico and completely surrounded by White Sands Missile Range. The park covers 145,762 acres in the Tularosa Basin, inc
White Sands Missile Range
…northern end of the Range, in Socorro County near the towns of Carrizozo and San Antonio. It then became the White Sands Proving Ground on 9 July 1945. White Sands National Park founded in the 1930s is located within the range. The missile range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range…
Visitor center
Some of the White Sands fossil footprints
Two Mescalero Apache women and teepees, c. 1890–1910
Lake Lucero, an ephemeral lake filled by a significant rainfall