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White Sands National Monument (Images of America)

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The world’s largest gypsum dune field, the 275-square-mile dunes of White Sands National Monument are a geologic oddity more than 250 million years within the making. Situated in Southern New Mexico, the recognition of the monument draws nearly half 1,000,000 visitors each and every year to the National Park Service’s southwestern region. The area is safe from encroachment by the boundaries of america Army’s White Sands Missile Range and houses at least 144 species of birds, 20 unique mammals, and 371 forms of insects. The gypsum’s beauty has been captured by photographers and filmmakers for more than a century. Both Hollywood and scientists alike have sought after the monument’s stunning otherworldly visuals to mimic other countries and worlds. The deserts of Qatar were recreated for Transformers (2007), and the monument has been identified as a potential analog web page for Mars.

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