Cave Exploration

Images of cave explorers in various underground settings, showcasing unique rock formations, stalactites, and the adventurer's interaction with the cave environments.

group of scientists exploring the Leidarendi lava cave in Iceland

Peru, Ica Administrative Division, Nazca, Nazca cemetery and mummified remains.

Mongolia, Near Dalanzadgad, Gobi Desert, Bayanzag, Flaming Cliffs, Dr. Badamgarav Excavating Dinosaur Egg

An expedition team member climbs inside Dark Star, a limestone cave system in Uzbekistan's Boysuntov Range.

Copper smelting hearth furnace at Timna. 1400 BC. King Solomon's Mines, Negev Desert.

A female cave explorer wades through the terminal Gour Pool so very close to the surface at the most remote part of Whiterock (c

Cross Section of Hurannon site at Rakhi Gurhi in, Haryana, Punjab, India Copyright: xDilipxRajgor/DinodiaxPhotox

An expedition team member prepares to dive in water inside a passage in Dark Star, a limestone cave system in Uzbekistan's Boysuntov Range.

Male tourists exploring cave wearing illuminated headlamps

Marco Isaia, arachnologist, coming out from cave in Western Alps

Fault gouge developed along the Cretan Detachment fault, Greece

A cave explorer admires pretty formations in a cave in New Britain

An expedition team scans El Cenote inside Conturines Spitze in the Italian Dolomites using a high precision 3D laser scanner.

Subsurface Cave Bacteria.

A Caver Chest-High in Water Studies the Cave Wall

A Mulu Cave Project expedition member looks at formations

Australian honeypot ants Camponotus inflatus repletes & workers in storage chamber

Naturalists observing footprints of Sauropod Dinosaurs

Speleologist in Baume de Gonvillars cave in France

Two geologists explore cave under glacier, science and study

Called the Artist Drive Formation, the rock unit provides evidence for one of the Death Valley area's most violently explosive volcanic periods

Egypt, Workman and conservator clear sand from mummies in Tomb 54

A781059 U12G EARTH PENETRATOR BEN BENJAMIN (Project Engineer) AUG 24 78 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 8/24/1978 BARRELS, GUN; BENJAMIN, BENJAMIN CODY; CANNONS; EARTH PENETRATOR CANNON; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); GUNS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR TESTING; PENETRATORS; PIPES; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; EARTH PENETRATOR historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Speleologist in Baume de Gonvillars cave in France

Triassic limestone of the Dinwoody Formation, SW Montana, USA.

Caving Expedition to explore the caves of the Tongzi mastersystem in northern Wulong County, Chongqing Province of China

A800386 U12G MULTI FRAC GF-4 MINEBACK FINLEY (Project Engineer) MAR 17 80 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/17/1980 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; G-TUNNEL; GF-4; GF-4 MINEBACK; MINES, LAND (WEAPON); MULTI FRAC; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

A hiker is looking at the handprints, a type of petroglyph called petrosomatoglyphs, likely made by Ancestral Puebloans between 300-1300 AD in Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah, United States.

A861538 U12G JAWS MINEBACK TALBUTT (Project Engineer) DEC 16 86 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 12/16/1986 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; G-TUNNEL; MARKED; MARKINGS ON ROCK; MINEBACK; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; ROCKS; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); TALBUTT, JIM S; TEST SITES; TUNNELED; TUNNELS; U12G; U12G JAWS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS EFFECTS; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Some prehistorical graves in the Hoggar Algerian desert

Two male cave explorers climb up through a vertical section deep underground in China.

Experiementers test for nuclear material leakage, Yucca Mountain, AZ, USA.

Deformed Silurian-Devonian schist of the Waits River Formation with asymmetric quartz lenses, near West Hartford, Vermont (220905-19)

CUEVA DE SANTIMAMIÑE. FORMACIONES GEOLOGICAS. ESTALAGMITAS Y ESTALACTITAS. VIZCAYA, PAIS VASCO, ESPAÑA.

The total length of the passages under Geithain is 1100 m, of which 412 m are currently accessible. It is assumed that the beginnings of the gradual development of the underground passage system lie in the turbulent time in front of the foundation of the town. Guided tours through the passages are possible on request

Hanksville, Utah, Researchers simulate living on Mars at the Mars Desert Research Station. 'Expedition Boomerang' brought Australian researchers to the station, who donned space suits to explore their surroundings

Cave seismic Franco-Italian Concordia Station Antarctica

Mutnovski Vulkan Mutnovski Vulkan Copyright: xZoonar.com/JensxNieswandtx 1021046

A800874 U12G LASER EXPERIMENT D R WAYMIRE JUN 18 80EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 6/18/1980 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; LASER EXPERIMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; TUNNEL TEST; U12G; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WAYMIRE, DAVID R.; WEAPON EFFECTS; WEAPONS RELATED; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY; WIRE & CABLES; U12G - LASER EXPERIMENT historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Divers in the old Miltitz lime mine

Scuba diver inside Jabula cave that is located outside the island of Kolocep, on the side facing the open sea. The entrance is located just below the surface, inside there is an air space where you can admire the stalactites. Dubrovnik, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean

model of an archaeological excavation 2015

Luc Ebbo, paleontologist. Fossilized shark vertebral column fragment, 4 vertebrae are visible in section. Ebbo collection

Archaeological excavation of neolithic causewayed enclosure, Great Wilbrahim, Cambridgeshire, England, UK 1976.

A770540 U12G HYDRA FRAC BILL VOLLENDORF (Project Engineer) MAR 10 77 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/10/1977 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; HYDRA FRAC; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; MALE; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); MINING; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR TESTING; PICKAXES; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); SIGNS; TAPE MEASURES; TEST SITES; TUNNELING; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; VOLLENDORF, BILL historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Stromatolite Fossils.

The world´s longest dinosaur tracks, Cretaceous Titanosaurus, near Sucre, Bolivia, South America

Diver Entering Cave

A790517 U12G NUTCRACKER EXPERIMENT FRANK NORRIS (Project Engineer) JUL 26 79EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 7/26/1979 DIRT (SOIL); EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EXPERIMENTS; G-TUNNEL; MALE; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NORRIS, FRANK; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUTCRACKER; NUTCRACKER EXPERIMENT; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Guatemala, San Bartolo, Looters' trench examined by research team from Peabody Museum

Hoba meteorite the largest meteorite ever found and the most massive naturally-occurring piece of iron known in the world, Namibia

Ethiopia, South Western Ethiopia, Omo Valley, Southern Mursiland, Archeology work; Dirikoro

William Saturno, at San Bartolo excavation of Maya Mural depicting Corn god myth dating prior to 100 AD, found in Maya pyramid, previously thought to date to Classical period 250 AD, Guatemala.

A850677 U12G PERF C&D - GT-3&4 JERRY CUDERMAN (Project Engineer) APR 19 85 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/19/1985 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; G-TUNNEL; GT 3&4; MALE; MALES; MAN; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); MARKED; MARKINGS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; PERF C&D; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; PERF C&D - GT-3&4 historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Luc Ebbo, paleontologist. Fossilized bone fragments showing the characteristic fibrous texture. Albian blue marls of Sisteron. Ebbo collection

Simian tip and Petroglyphe in the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile

Leafcutter Ant (Atta laevigata) nest excavated by researchers, Batucatu, Brazil

Archaeological excavations. Young archaeologist excavating part of human skeleton and skull from the ground. . Ancient Burial Site- Archaeological Excavations

Hanksville, Utah, Researchers simulate living on Mars at the Mars Desert Research Station. 'Expedition Boomerang' brought Australian researchers to the station. Crew commander Andrew Wheeler led Jennifer Lane and Dr. Shane Usher on a walk to sample the area's soil and rocks

A Mulu Cave Project expedition member admires straw stalactite formations in Whiterock Cave.

Angular unconformity: tilted Eocene beds of the Coaledo Formation beneath flat-lying Holocene deposits.

Germany, near Nebra, Bronze Age, Excavation of Mittelberg hill, Mound where sky disk was unearthed

A Scientist Takes a Lava Sample on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

Scientist Rick Wessels examines ice-rich lahar deposits from the March 22, 2009 flood that are rapidly changing as subsequent floods and warm weather work on them. This location is on the south side of the lower Drift River Valley.

A780647 AREA 5 NEST CONTAINMENT TEST EUGENE W ZUCUSKIE MAY 31 78 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 5/31/1978 AREA 5; BUILDING & STRUCTURAL FEATURES; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEST CONTAINMENT TEST; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; TESTING; TESTS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPON EFFECTS; WEAPONS RELATED; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY; ZUCUSKIE, EUGENE W; AREA 5 - NEST CONTAINMENT TEST historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

A830239 U12G WON TON INSTALLATION CARL SMITH (Project Engineer) FEB 23 83 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/23/1983 BALLS; CHAINS; CHAINS BY TYPE; CHAINS BY USAGE; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; G-TUNNEL; MALE; MEN; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; PIPELINES; ROUND; STRAPS; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; TUNNELS BY USAGE; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; WON TON; WON TON INSTALLATION historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Lithics and pumice in ash flow tuff of Santorini (Minoan) eruption, 3600 years ago, Greece.

ISS014-E-18950 (3 April 2007) --- Covered with snow and ice, Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 14 crewmember on the International Space Station.

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group of people, scientists, looking at water holes in ground rock

Egypt, Tomb 54 excavation, Bahariya Oasis, Valley of the Golden Mummies

One of the first autotype photographs of the underground Aquarium du Trocadero, Paris, France, circa 1880, Europe

Scientists explore the caves in Gunung Mulu National Park in Malaysia; Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

The archeological sight of Foutes in the Hoggars tassilis algerian desert

Ojo Guareña, karst complex, , Espinosa de los Monteros, Castilla y Leon, Spain.

Volcanologists collecting minerals samples on Gran Cratere, Vulcano Island, Aeolian Islands, Sicily, Italy

Scrambling at The Grotto in Rat's Nest Cave, Alberta, Canada (flash effects, ghost image)

A760425 U12G HYDRA FRAC BILL VOLLENDORF (Project Engineer) MAR 24 76 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/24/1976 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; G-TUNNEL; HOLES (IN THE GROUND); HYDRA FRAC; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; MALE; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); MARKINGS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR TESTING; PICKAXES; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); SCORING; TAPE MEASURES; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; VOLLENDORF, BILL historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Villa de Leyva, Colombia. Known as El Fosil, an almost complete fossil of a kronosaurus can be found in its original location just a short walk outside of Villa de Leyva

Layer of fossils of Tawachi Desert of Tenere Niger

Mars on Earth

TRINCHERA DOLINA-PLEISTOCENO MEDIO(DESDE 730MIL HASTA 120 MIL AÑOS)-ANDAMIOS EN LAS PAREDES. Location: Yacimientos. SPAIN.

Girl at a Dinosaur fossil, Dinosaur Provincial Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Alberta, Canada, North America

Underground laboratory of the permafrost institute for studying permafrost and storing cores at negative temperatures, Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha, Russia

Scientific research in winter on Mt. Washington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

A761499 U12G HYDRA FRAC BILL VOLLENDORF(Project Engineer) DEC 2 76EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 12/2/1976 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; G-TUNNEL; HYDRA FRAC; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; MALE; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); MEASURED; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTS; PICKAXES; TAPE MEASURES; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; VOLLENDORF, BILL historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

June 19, 2006 - Stromboli eruption, Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily, Italy

Asian female geologist researcher is analyzing rocks with a smartphone in a natural park. Exploration Geologist in the Field. Stone and ecology concept.

Glacial research in the summit crater of Redoubt Volcano. Bob Gerhard passes an ice core sample to Matthew Sturm, staff from Lake Clark National Park and the Alaska Geophysical Institute, Alaska.

Ojo Guarena, karst complex, Espinosa de los Monteros, Castilla y Leon, Spain, Europe

Egypt, Giza plateau, University students document findings in royal production center

Luc Ebbo, paleontologist, observing the blue marls of the Albian of Sisteron. Ebbo collection

Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar and a accompaning (learning for the the classroom) team of teachers will be studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets. Why the Mojave -- an inhospitable, sun-drenched spot in the California Desert This natural setting presents scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers and scientists will perform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radiation. for additional information and Outreach projects see http //quest.arc.nasa.gov/ shown here are Dr Chris McKay and Monika Kress, Professor of Astronomy at San Jose State University

A870110 NEW TYPICAL HLOS DRAWING EDWARDS (Project Engineer) JAN 21 87 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 1/21/1987 DRAWINGS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EDWARDS, B. G.; EDWARDS, BOBBY G.; EG&G; ILLUSTRATIONS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NEW TYPICAL HLOS; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS EFFECTS; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

security man observe incandescent flowing volcanic lava in volcano

Archaeological excavation of neolithic causewayed enclosure, Great Wilbrahim, Cambridgeshire, England, UK 1976.

A780787 U12G HYDRA FRAC BILL VOLLENDORF (Project Engineer) MAY 16 78 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 5/16/1978 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; HYDRA FRAC; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; MALE; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); MINING; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR TESTING; PICKAXES; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); TAPE MEASURES; TEST SITES; TUNNELING; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; VOLLENDORF, BILL historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Volcanic terrain with thermal smoke emitting

Five Pymide Pymide Pymide Peruvian, Peru

Prehistory : Neandertal Men Hunting Mammouth

Timanfaya National Park, Spain, April 24, 2022: Ranger demonstrating heat of the volcano by pouring water that immediately becomes a steam, Europe

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