Road trip, starting with the famous Very Large Array of radio telescopes near Magdalena, NM (Jodie Foster made "Contact" with Extraterrestrials, here), continuing to the equally fascinating White Sands national monument: the world's largest gypsum dune field (275 square miles of white desert) which is constantly moving while you stand there and watch in awe. On July 16, 1945, the US Army conducted the first nuclear weapons test of an atomic bomb right at the White Sands Proving Ground. Radiation levels are still ten times higher than normal...
Part 5 of a two weeks trip behind the wheel from LA to Dallas.
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