Death Valley's Jawa Rock sits within one of the planet's most extreme landscapes, where sun-bleached rock formations rise over vast, wind-sculpted sands and the air shimmers with heat. The location was used for exterior shots of a Tatooine desert, featuring Jawas, roaming droids, and Sand People moving along the arid flats toward a Mos Eisley–style settlement. The atmosphere is austere and cinematic: a brutal, sun-drenched glare at midday gives way to long, contemplative shadows at dawn and dusk, inviting visitors to imagine life among scavengers and travelers in a galaxy far, far away. Today, fans and photographers can stand where the film magic happened and feel the desert's quiet grandeur that shaped a legendary sci-fi frontier.

Death Valley - Mos Espa Outskirts sits at the edge of Death Valley National Park, a landscape long used by filmmakers to stand in for a distant desert world. Its cracked salt flats, wind-carved dunes, and scorched horizons evoke Tatooine’s harsh climate, making the site ideal for the Mos Espa outskirts and the approach to Mos Eisley. In Star Wars lore, these desert vistas helped convey isolation, grit, and the epic scale of a desert planet. Today, the site carries that same stark beauty—the heat shimmer on the flats, the whisper of distant winds, and a sense of vast, empty possibility for visitors walking the same routes used on screen.

The scorching deserts of Death Valley portrayed parts of Tatooine including scenes with Jawas, Sand People, droids wandering and the approach to Mos Eisley.