Natural aerosols are produced by sea salt, desert dust, volcanic eruptions and smoke from forest fires.
By mid-March the desert heat and dust will start to make an invasion far more difficult.
For most music fans, even the best festival may not justify three days in the desert sun and dust.
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Right here on the flight line in crash landings, the helicopters landing in what are called brown-out conditions, meaning the dust on the desert floor rises up and engulfs the helicopter and it is very difficult for the pilot to see the ground in those conditions and very easy to mess up the landing.
Ensconced on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Inyokern covers 11 square miles of Kern County in the dust-choked Mojave Desert.
The unwary package tourist could find himself in a barely-built concrete rectangle plonked in desert-scrub wasteland, thick with cement dust.
Even if the delicate digital hardware running these machines keeps going, and even if they are the smartest roving robots this side of Mars, navigating through the scrub, dust and rock of the Mojave desert represents a complex challenge.
They even planted trees to cut dust that flows in from the Gobi Desert, but today, today was one of the worst days we've seen in the week we've been here.
As we sit and watch, a desert elephant storms up, blasting itself with a trunkful of dust to keep cool.
Blowing dust forced the California Highway Patrol to close state Route 14 in the high desert Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles due to low visibility.
Not content with offering up merely modular Android tablets, ASUS has revealed a new seven-inch tablet that's water and dust resistant -- perfect for a spot of bath-time browsing or... desert rallying.
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