The White Sands National Park is a natural wonder, a desert in New Mexico, USA. It is a field of white dunes (275 sq mi/700 sq km) formed of white gypsum crystals. The desert is the world's ...
(Ken Feisel) The sun shines nearly 300 days a year over southern New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin, where bright white sand ripples across the desert. Here, in White Sands National Park, the world’s ...
In this part of the Chihuahuan Desert, however, the land forms a basin, trapping the mineral; water evaporates, leaving the gypsum behind, and wind and weather erode it over time into an ocean of ...