Mojave Desert

2009 - Geminid Meteor, a bright meteor with a greenish tinge flashes through the sky over the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California, USA.

This particular round came from Google (GOOG), to help complete construction on a solar power tower plant in the Mojave Desert.

Some firms are building vast fields of mirrors in the Mojave desert to focus the sun onto water boilers and use the steam to spin turbines.

This month, in the Mojave Desert, a company called BrightSource plans to break ground on a revolutionary new type of solar power plant.

The U. S. Army opens the National Training Center, a 1, 000-square-mile state-of-the-art combat-simulation facility in the Mojave Desert.

Here in the Mojave Desert animals have had millions of years to adapt to the harsh environment.

The name Joshua tree was given by a group of Latter-Day Saints who crossed the Mojave Desert in the mid-19th century.

In a giant leap for the space industry, the first commercial manned spacecraft will be launched on Monday in the Mojave desert in the US.

The Voyager crew worked on the plane in a small building at an airport in California's Mojave Desert.

Description - focuses on the natural history of southern Nevada and the Mojave Desert. Traveling exhibits also are featured.

NASA has tracked and communicated with Deep Impact by using its Deep Space Network, with sites in the Mojave Desert, Spain, and Australia.

Tony stops him with news that a plane has blown up over the Mojave Desert.

Death Valley is part of the Great Mojave Desert.

Renfro, who now lives in California's Mojave desert, only found out about her supposed murder when Graysmith told her about it.

A Joshua tree stands under a purple-black sky in California's Mojave Desert.

Mighty mine: This 50-acre mine on the eastern edge of California's Mojave Desert was once the world's leading supplier of rare-earth metals.

Drawing on prior research, Luz began building a series of solar-thermal power stations in California's Mojave desert in the mid-1980s.

Later this year, she will be shooting her short film, Exiles, in the Mojave Desert.

Salt's impressive energy-hoarding was first demonstrated ina pilot project in the Mojave Desert, Solar Two, between 1994 to1999.

Solar panels in the Mojave desert cover many kilometres.

"We've done 10 firings to date of our six-inch model - that was in the Mojave Desert in California, " explained Mr Jubb.

Virgin Galactic is offering flights to space for $200, 000 from a spaceport in California's Mojave desert, starting in 2011.

And we hadn't even reached the Mojave Desert yet.

The photo here shows Baumgartner in a high-altitude test jump last year, somewhere way above the Mojave Desert in California.

I have run through pine forests, then back into in the desert (more volcanic than when I went through the Mojave desert).

OnOct. 8, 2005, a Volkswagen managed to drive itself 128 miles acrossthe Mojave Desert, to win Darpa's "Grand Challenge" robotrally.