Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...
As the oldest and driest desert on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert is a treasure trove of discoveries for scientists and ...
Deserts are most commonly associated with extreme heat, dunes, and overall arid conditions. But in the past five years, there ...
Following a rare superbloom event, Desierto Florido National Park was created to safeguard nearly 200 flower species—and many other scientific marvels—in the Atacama Desert. Thousands of wildflowers ...
COPIAPO, Chile — When my plane touches down at the Desierto de Atacama Airport in northern Chile, it feels as if I’ve been launched out of orbit to some Martian landscape. Aside from the small ...
In Chile, a writer takes a road trip through one of the world’s driest places — a landscape that preserves remnants of the dead. The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert, with the Andes in the ...
Snow fell at an elevation of 9,500 feet in the Atacama Desert of Chile, the world's driest nonpolar desert. ALMA / Felipe Besser Last week, astronomers stationed at the Atacama Large ...
Benito Gómez-Silva is surrounded by nothing. For as far as the eye can see, no plants dot the landscape; no animals amble across the salt-crusted soil that stretches out to the base of distant ...
The deal Chile Lakes District and Atacama Desert tour from $3,495 This 11-day Lakes District and Atacama Desert tour by iExplore provides a solid overview of Chile’s amazingly diverse geography, from ...
Crunch. Crackle. Crack. There’s a final creak as centuries of petrified rock and the Earth’s calcified crust crumble beneath my boots. The exposed layers are startling in their crude condition.
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