mesa

Under the veil of the Manhattan Project, this remote mesa became the site of a profound scientific pivot that ended a world war and ushered in the nuclear age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The area around the mesa is rugged, quiet and vast, and water has to be hauled in.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

Later, higher-resolution photographs with fewer shadows showed a pretty plain mesa.

From Scientific American ● May 17, 2023

Archival footage of the park’s 1971 inauguration shows the first lady disturbed by fence on the mesa and asking that it be taken down so she could hug and shake hands with people in Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

I tilt my forward-facing camera up to study the tunnel-like opening that exists in the middle of the mesa.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

Washington, Utah, located just southwest of Zion National Park, is surrounded by cinematic mesas and has long been a hub for exploring the natural wonders of the American west.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

Several clues, taken together, give away the volcanic nature of the jumble of layered mesas and canyons in this eastern part of Noctis Labyrinthus.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

An estimated 500 Catholic mission churches remain in northern New Mexico, where the Rocky Mountains taper off into desert mesas to the west and endless plains to the east.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2023

The next day members of the motorcycle club headed northeast, crossing into badlands of Arizona’s Painted Desert, engines roaring amid the red mesas and cottonwood gulleys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

Nathan looked at the rising half-full moon; shadows were covering the desert, deepening and darkening the colors of the land and mesas.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young