Sea level marker on the rocky cliffs above Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California, highlighting the stark difference between the landscape and sea level in the lowest point in North America.

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The deadliest shirt-sleeve environment in the solar system; yet one where you can gaze up at the stars and feel at home. A preview, perhaps, of "Where We're Going".

Captured last November at Badwater Basin.

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The most hostile shirt-sleeve environment in the solar system...and, when the sun goes down, our best window into the wonders ahead. A capture from Death Valley at night: "Where We're Going".

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There might be objectively "better" places to stargaze, but it might be precisely because it's so low and dusty that it has a certain liminal quality, how Badwater Basin makes you feel like this is the final gateway where Man will become one with God...

My capture of a November's night there, "True Sky".

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Travel Trivia: The highest (Mt Whitney) and lowest (Badwater Basin) points in the contiguous United States are only 136 kms (85 miles) apart in California.

Discover more and find out how worldly you are at: https://app.bitwyze.org/pinpoint-where/place/MountWhitney

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Badwater Basin: perhaps the most hostile shirt-sleeve environment in the solar system. Where better to spend a Thanksgiving night than such a place where you can see a window into eternity? To "Where We're Going"...

From Death Valley, with love to the stars: November 2024.

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Our nearest star washes them all out when it rises, but when it sets...you see what's *really* out there. My capture from Badwater Basin: the "True Sky".

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A cathedral in the darkness, in the best portal to the infinite that the world underneath our feet has to offer: my capture of Badwater Basin one winter's night, "True Sky".

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