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Rogers Dry Lake is an endorheic desert salt pan in the Mojave Desert of Kern County, California. The lake derives its name from the Anglicization from the Spanish name, Rodriguez Dry Lake . [ 4 ] It is the central part of Edwards Air Force Base as its hard surface provides a natural extension to the paved runways.
Rosamond Lake is a natural dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert of Kern and Los Angeles County, California. The shores of the lake are entirely within the borders of Edwards Air Force Base, approximately 10 miles (16 km) from Lancaster. The lake is adjacent to Rogers Dry Lake which through the Holocene, together made up one large water-body.
Edwards (formerly, Muroc and Wherry Housing) is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. [ 1 ] It is located 16 miles (26 km) east-southeast of Mojave , [ 3 ] about 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster , 15 miles (24 km) east of Rosamond , and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of California City at an elevation of 2,356 feet (718 m).
Edwards, from Alberta, Canada, became a test pilot in 1943 and spent much of his time at Muroc Army Air Field, on California's high desert, testing wide varieties of experimental prototype aircraft. He died in the crash of a Northrop YB-49 flying wing near Muroc AFB on 5 June 1948. [ 14 ]
A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military ...
The Mojave Desert is burning in California's biggest fire of year, torching Joshua trees. Grace Toohey, Alex Wigglesworth. July 31, 2023 at 12:10 PM.
Muroc (also known as, Rogers, Rod, Yucca, and Rodriguez) [2] is a former settlement in Kern County, California in the Mojave Desert. [1]It was located on Rogers Dry Lake 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Edwards, [2] at an elevation of 2283 feet (696 m). [1]
A massive fire burning through the desert in California and southern Nevada has scorched tens of thousands of acres in a biodiverse national preserve and torched its iconic Joshua trees.