The Wave at Night, under a clear night sky full of stars. The Wave, an area of fantastic eroded sandstone featuring beautiful swirls, wild colors, countless striations, and bizarre shapes set amidst the dramatic surrounding North Coyote Buttes of Arizona and Utah. The sandstone formations of the North Coyote Buttes, including the Wave, date from the Jurassic period. Managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the Wave is located in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness and is accessible on foot by permit only.
Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Image ID: 28624
Milky Way over Arch Rock, planet Venus framed with the arch, at astronomical twilight, Joshua Tree National Park.
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California
Image ID: 29199
Panorama dimensions: 8724 x 11400
Lunar Eclipse and blood red moon sequence, stars, astronomical twilight, composite image, Joshua Tree National Park, April 14/15 2014.
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California
Image ID: 29202
Lunar Eclipse and blood red moon sequence, composite image, Joshua Tree National Park, April 14/15 2014.
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California
Image ID: 29203
Stars rise above the Ocotillo Wind Turbine power generation facility, with a flashlight illuminating the turning turbine blades.
Location: Ocotillo, California
Image ID: 30227
Full lunar eclipse, blood red moon, with blue star Spica (right of moon) and planet Mars (top right), over Joshua Tree National Park, April 14/15, 2014.
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California
Image ID: 29205
Joshua Tree National Park boulders under a night sky and stars. Mars is visible in the middle of the image.
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California
Image ID: 29194
Panorama dimensions: 8650 x 12876
Ocotillo Wind Energy Turbines, at night with stars and the Milky Way in the sky above, the moving turbine blades illuminated by a small flashlight.
Location: Ocotillo, California
Image ID: 30238
Ocotillo Wind Energy Turbines, at night with stars and the Milky Way in the sky above, the moving turbine blades illuminated by a small flashlight.
Location: Ocotillo, California
Image ID: 30236
Zodiacal light and Milky Way over Death Valley. Zodiacal light is a faint diffuse light seen along the plane of the ecliptic in the vicinity of the setting or rising sun, caused by sunlight scattered off space dust in the zodiacal cloud.
Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California
Image ID: 27693
Stars rise above the Ocotillo Wind Turbine power generation facility, with a flashlight illuminating the turning turbine blades.
Location: Ocotillo, California
Image ID: 30228
Ocotillo Wind Energy Turbines, at night with stars and the Milky Way in the sky above, the moving turbine blades illuminated by a small flashlight.
Location: Ocotillo, California
Image ID: 30233
Ocotillo Wind Energy Turbines, at night with stars and the Milky Way in the sky above, the moving turbine blades illuminated by a small flashlight.
Location: Ocotillo, California
Image ID: 30240
Ocotillo Express Wind Energy Projects, moving turbines lit by the rising sun,.
Location: Ocotillo, California
Image ID: 30242