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Dark Skies Over the Great Basin

Far from large urban areas, Great Basin National Park offers unencumbered views of the night sky and opportunities to study distant stars and exoplanets.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Dark Skies Over the Great Basin.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Photo by Paul Gardner. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published September 2, 2025
Data acquired August 12, 2025

Sources:: Landsat 9 > OLI-2; Photograph; Suomi NPP > VIIRS

Collection:: U.S. National Parks