Great Basin
Large depression in western North America
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| October 20 2024 |
Black Rock Desert
University of Southern California's Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (USCRPL) launched Aftershock II, achieving the highest-altitude amateur rocket launch to date.
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| 2022 |
Black Rock Desert
Burning Man festival resumed in the Black Rock Desert playa.
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| 2019 |
Black Rock Desert
Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert playa temporarily concluded.
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| May 2014 |
Black Rock Desert
USCRPL's second attempt, Traveler II, also failed catastrophically approximately one second into the flight.
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| September 21 2013 |
Black Rock Desert
University of Southern California's Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (USCRPL) launched Traveler, their first space shot attempt, which experienced a catastrophic failure 3.5 seconds into the flight.
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| 2010 |
Black Rock Desert
Bureau of Land Management completed a roundup of 1,922 wild horses in the Calico Mountains Complex, with 39 dying of malnutrition.
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| 2010 | Potter and Chuipka published a paper arguing that evidence from the Sacred Ridge site near Durango, Colorado suggests warfare related to competition and ethnic cleansing among Ancestral Puebloans. |
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