A satellite image of Area 51 from 2000 shows dry Groom Lake just northeast of the site. (Source: Wikipedia)
Area 51, aka Groom Lake or the Nevada Test and Training Range, is a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base located in the barren desert of southern Nevada, 83 miles north-northwest of Las Vegas. (Edwards Air Force Base itself is located approximately 22 miles northeast of Lancaster, in the western Mojave Desert in Southern California.)
