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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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