Sand dunes at White Sands National Park in New Mexico on a cold morning in February. White Sands NP is at the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert.

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Sand dunes at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico on a cold morning in February. White Sands park is at the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert in the mountain-ringed valley called the Tularosa Basin. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand cover 275 square miles of desert, the world's largest gypsum sand field.

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Location: White Sands National Park, NM, USA
Photo credit: © Janice and Nolan Braud / Alamy / Afripics
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