Stanley was, of course, specially hardened by its designers for the rough terrain of the Nevada desert.
The U.S. Air Force is supporting development of the largest North American solar plant to provide electricity for the Nellis Air Force Base located outside Las Vegas which covers 140 acres of the Nevada desert with massive photovoltaic arrays that track the sun.
The researchers detected "abundant cellular life" which was "metabolically active", according to Alison Murray of the Desert Research Institute in Nevada.
Further, Blixseth claimed that Desert Ranch LLLP kept its business records outside of Nevada, and conducted no business in Nevada.
The lion's share of U.S. drone missions are flown by Air Force pilots stationed at Creech, a tiny outpost in the barren Nevada desert, 20 miles north of a state prison and adjacent to a one-story casino.
That left precious little white space in the middle of Page 8, the former barrenness of which had seemed like the Nevada desert.
Las Vegas lies at the edge of the vast Mojave Desert, in a bowl-shaped valley in the parched rain-shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
In August 1998, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided to adorn the company logo with a symbol of Burning Man, a festival held annually in the Nevada desert that they were attending.
Fossett faces a grave risk of dehydration, even if he survived a crash in the Nevada desert.
The well-designed and compelling museum has a vast mix of artifacts and interactive displays, with a special exhibit on another Nevada desert intrigue, Area 51.
HAWTHORNE, Nev. (AP) A mortar shell explosion killed seven Marines and injured a half-dozen more during mountain warfare training in Nevada's high desert, prompting the Pentagon to immediately halt the use of some of the weapons worldwide until an investigation can determine their safety, officials said Tuesday.
Thirty-five miles southeast of Las Vegas is a 280-acre shining oasis on a parched desert plain: the power plant called Nevada Solar One.
Ensconced on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Inyokern covers 11 square miles of Kern County in the dust-choked Mojave Desert.
This time the Nevada desert will not be big enough, so the attempt will take place over an even larger expanse of flat ground at Hakskeen Pan in the Northern Cape in South Africa, perhaps next year.
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