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.

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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.

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For most music fans, even the best festival may not justify three days in the desert sun and dust.

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Ensconced on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Inyokern covers 11 square miles of Kern County in the dust-choked Mojave Desert.

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By mid-March the desert heat and dust will start to make an invasion far more difficult.

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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.

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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.

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