Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

It was a mid-summer shoot and while on location on a huge castle set that was built near Acton, California on the edge of the Mojave Desert, the cast and crew endured very hot conditions during the day and very cold temperatures at night.

The mountain systems include: the southeastern Transverse Ranges ( the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains ) in the Mojave Desert north and northeast of the Los Angeles basin and Inland Empire ; and the northern Peninsular Ranges ( San Jacinto, Santa Rosa, and Laguna Mountains ), which separate the Colorado Desert ( western Sonoran Desert ) from lower coastal Southern California.

It can also be found in higher elevation sky islands in the interior of the deserts, such as in the upper New York Mountains within the Mojave National Preserve in the Mojave Desert.

* Sierra Nevada creating the Great Basin Desert and northern Mojave Desert

* Transverse ranges creating the western through eastern Mojave Desert

This means that salad greens could be grown in Antarctica or even the Mojave Desert.

JPL manages the worldwide Deep Space Network, with facilities in California's Mojave Desert, in Spain near Madrid, and in Australia near Canberra.

The occurrence locale was the US Borax Mine at Boron in the western Mojave Desert.

Category: Natural history of the Mojave Desert

The expedition moved south into the Mojave Desert, enduring attacks by Natives, who killed one man.

:" More than any other single factor or incident, Mojave Desert incident from Frémont's second expedition report is where the Kit Carson legend was born ..."

Perhaps the most notable find in recent years has been the Los Angeles meteorite, a martian meteorite that was found by Robert Verish in the California Mojave Desert.

Morris has played in over fifty countries at nightclubs and parties, and particularly music festivals such as the Full Moon parties in the Mojave Desert, Glastonbury Festival, Rainbow 2000 and Mother SOS in Japan, Chillits in Northern California, and Berlin's Love Parade.

Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge.

Mountains west of Las Vegas in the Mojave Desert

The southern third of the state, where the Las Vegas area is situated, is within the Mojave Desert.

* 1967 – The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

Solar thermal power stations operate in the USA and Spain, and the largest of these is the 354 MW SEGS power plant in the Mojave Desert.

* S. t. salicamans occurs west of the Sierra Nevada range during the summer and in south and central Baja California to the Mojave Desert and Colorado Desert in winter.

Bealville Historic marker along Caliente-Bodfish Road near Caliente, California. At the urging of Beale, Fort Tejon was established by the U. S. Army in 1854, to protect and control the Indians who were living on the Sebastian Indian Reservation, and to protect both the Indians and white settlers from raids by the Paiutes, Chemeheui, Mojave and other Indian groups of the desert regions to the east.

She sold it, and in March 1935 bought of land in the Mojave Desert, near the Rogers dry lake bed and the nascent Muroc Field, then called March Field because it was an adjunct property of March Army Air Base at that time.

The group was temporarily assigned to the Army Desert Training Center at Rice AAF in the Mojave Desert in August, training with General George Patton's forces prior to the Operation Torch invasion of North Africa in November.

Located near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve.

* Warren ( near Mojave ), California

It has been alive 11, 700 years, in the central Mojave Desert near present day Lucerne Valley, California.

The Mojave warriors withdrew as Hoffman's formidable armada approached and the expedition posted camp near what would later become Fort Mojave.

When he was thirteen the family moved from the Los Angeles area to the more remote farming town of Lancaster, near the Mojave Desert, where there was a growing aerospace industry and testing plant that would become Edwards Airforce Base.

The southern segment ( known as the Mojave segment ) begins near Bombay Beach, California.

The film was shot partially near Bakersfield and the Mojave Desert, California.

Morongo Valley lies along the western edge of the Mojave Desert and near the northern edge of the Coachella Valley, and as such is generally dry.

It has junctions with Interstate 5 near Buttonwillow, State Route 99 in Bakersfield, State Route 202 in Tehachapi, State Route 14 in Mojave, and U. S. Route 395 at Kramer Junction.

The southern terminus of the route is in the Mojave Desert at Interstate 15 near Hesperia.

Later, the Old Spanish Trail and Salt Lake Trail ( Mormon Trail ) joined up with the river and Mojave Road near the present-day location of Daggett, where historic Camp Cady was located.

Image: VentifactMojaveDesert031511. jpg | Ventifact from the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California.

At the time, he was living in a small cabin on the edge of the Mojave Desert near Pearblossom, California.

East of Indio, US 99 separated from US 60 and US 70, both continuing through the Mojave Desert to the Arizona state line at the Colorado River near Blythe almost entirely as a two-lane highway.

Pluvial Lake Manix sediments ( Pleistocene ) in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California.

Eastern portion of the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains, with the Mojave Desert on the right and Silverwood Lake near the boundary.

Silver Lake is a town that existed near the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, six miles north of Baker, in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California.

DSN facilities are located in Goldstone, California ( in the Mojave Desert ), near Canberra, Australia, and near Madrid, Spain.

The depiction of the Chihuahua Desert of southern New Mexico is actually the Mojave Desert near Palmdale, California.