White Sands National Monument & Missile Range , New Mexico, USA. ,
White Sands National Monument & Missile Range is in the northern Chihuahuan Desert in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It's known for its dramatic landscape of rare white gypsum sand dunes.
White Sands is located west of Alamogordo & is a vast area of desert and mountain ranges 100 by 40 miles in extent. It is closed to public access and used by the military for various kinds of weapons testing; this includes the Trinity Site where the first atomic bomb was detonated, in July 1945.
From time to time the missile range that surrounds the monument performs missile testing that may require the closure of the park & Highway 70.
White Sands National Monument & Missile Range , New Mexico, USA. ,
White Sands National Monument & Missile Range is in the northern Chihuahuan Desert in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It's known for its dramatic landscape of rare white gypsum sand dunes.
White Sands is located west of Alamogordo & is a vast area of desert and mountain ranges 100 by 40 miles in extent. It is closed to public access and used by the military for various kinds of weapons testing; this includes the Trinity Site where the first atomic bomb was detonated, in July 1945.
From time to time the missile range that surrounds the monument performs missile testing that may require the closure of the park & Highway 70.