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Cholla cactus, brittlebush, ocotillo and various cacti and wildflowers color the sides of Glorietta Canyon. Heavy winter rains led to a historic springtime bloom in 2005, carpeting the entire desert in vegetation and color for months.
Image ID: 10975
Species: Opuntia, Encelia farinosa, Fouquieria splendens
Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Tiny hikers atop Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, California. Near Stovepipe Wells lies a region of sand dunes, some of them hundreds of feet tall.
Image ID: 15577
Location: Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Mesquite Dunes sunrise, dawn, clouds and morning sky, sand dunes.
Image ID: 28689
Location: Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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Milky Way at Night over Arch Rock, Joshua Tree National Park.
Image ID: 30220
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 4709 x 9140 |
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Rainbow and clearing storm clouds, sunrise light on Manly Beacon, Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California.
Image ID: 27660
Location: Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | The Milky Way galaxy arches over Arch Rock on a clear evening in Joshua Tree National Park.
Image ID: 26792
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA | Racetrack sailing stone and star trails. A sliding rock of the Racetrack Playa. The sliding rocks, or sailing stones, move across the mud flats of the Racetrack Playa, leaving trails behind in the mud. The explanation for their movement is not known with certainty, but many believe wind pushes the rocks over wet and perhaps icy mud in winter.
Image ID: 27671
Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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Sailing stone on the Racetrack Playa. The sliding rocks, or sailing stones, move across the mud flats of the Racetrack Playa, leaving trails behind in the mud. The explanation for their movement is not known with certainty, but many believe wind pushes the rocks over wet and perhaps icy mud in winter.
Image ID: 27689
Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Image ID: 28426
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA | Venus sets over Manley Beacon and the Panamint Mountains, viewed from Zabriskie Point, landscape lit by a full moon, evening, stars.
Image ID: 28677
Location: Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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Mesquite Dunes sunrise, dawn, clouds and morning sky, sand dunes.
Image ID: 28680
Location: Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Joshua Trees in early morning light.
Image ID: 22112
Species: Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA | Eureka Valley Dune Evening Primrose. A federally endangered plant, Oenothera californica eurekensis is a perennial herb that produces white flowers from April to June. These flowers turn red as they age. The Eureka Dunes evening-primrose is found only in the southern portion of Eureka Valley Sand Dunes system in Indigo County, California.
Image ID: 25237
Species: Eureka Valley Dune Evening Primrose, Oenothera californica eurekensis, Oenothera deltoides
Location: Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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Sunrise in Joshua Tree National Park.
Image ID: 22100
Species: Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA | Brittlebush blooms in spring, Palm Canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park.
Image ID: 24304
Species: Brittlebush, Encelia farinosa
Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Sunset on the Last Chance Mountain Range, seen from Eureka Valley Sand Dunes.
Image ID: 25238
Location: Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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Sunset and boulders, Joshua Tree National Park. Sunset lights the giant boulders and rock formations near Jumbo Rocks in Joshua Tree N.P.
Image ID: 26719
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 5493 x 10035 |
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Boulders and sunset in Joshua Tree National Park. The warm sunlight gently lights unusual boulder formations at Jumbo Rocks in Joshua Tree National Park, California.
Image ID: 26726
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA | Joshua Trees silhouetted against predawn sunrise light.
Image ID: 22115
Species: Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA | Racetrack Playa, an ancient lake now dried and covered with dessicated mud.
Image ID: 25263
Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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The Milky Way galaxy arcs above Arch Rock, panoramic photograph, cylindrical projection.
Image ID: 26848
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 6121 x 10275 | Eureka Dunes. The Eureka Valley Sand Dunes are California's tallest sand dunes, and one of the tallest in the United States. Rising 680' above the floor of the Eureka Valley, the Eureka sand dunes are home to several endangered species, as well as "singing sand" that makes strange sounds when it shifts. Located in the remote northern portion of Death Valley National Park, the Eureka Dunes see very few visitors.
Image ID: 25250
Location: Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Star trails and Arch Rock. Polaris, the North Star, is at the center of the circular arc star trails as they pass above this natural stone archway in Joshua Tree National Park.
Image ID: 27709
Location: Alabama Hills Recreational Area, California, USA |
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The Milky Way Galaxy shines in the night sky with a Joshua Tree silhouetted in the foreground.
Image ID: 27805
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA |
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Joshua Tree National Park, Milky Way and Moon, Shooting Star, Comet Panstarrs, Impending Dawn.
Image ID: 28408
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 4205 x 10821 |
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Live Oak and Milky Way, rocks and stars, Joshua Tree National Park at night.
Image ID: 28417
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 4848 x 7431 | Full moon over Zabriskie Point landscape.
Image ID: 28676
Location: Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Mesquite Dunes sunrise, dawn, clouds and morning sky, sand dunes.
Image ID: 28688
Location: Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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A sliding rock of the Racetrack Playa. The sliding rocks, or sailing stones, move across the mud flats of the Racetrack Playa, leaving trails behind in the mud. The explanation for their movement is not known with certainty, but many believe wind pushes the rocks over wet and perhaps icy mud in winter.
Image ID: 25239
Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Perseid Meteor Shower over Arch Rock, Joshua Tree National Park, Aug 13, 2014.
Image ID: 31144
Location: Arch Rock, Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA |
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