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Rare Blanket of Snow Falls in Chile's Atacama, the World's Driest Desert
Last week, astronomers stationed at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in northern Chile ...
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Rare Snowfall Freezes Operations at ALMA Telescope in Atacama
The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, has been covered in an unexpected layer of snow. In this area, rain is ...
Rare snowfall in Atacama Desert forces the world's most powerful radio telescope into 'survival mode'
The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...
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Rare Desert Snowfall Forces ALMA Observatory to Pause Operations
When science organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan dreamed up a new, ultra-powerful millimeter and ...
In The World’s Driest Desert, Tierra Atacama Debuts Next-Level Luxury
Located in the remote Atacama Desert in Chile, Tierra Atacama reemerges from a year-long renovation to invite visitors back ...
Snow cloaks Atacama, the world's driest desert
Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...
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Snow Blankets Atacama, the World’s Driest Desert, in Rare Weather Event
Snow covered Chile's Atacama Desert, offering a rare sight of winter in a place with almost nonexistent rainfall and normally ...
Driest place on Earth blanked by rare snowfall in Chile. See winter wonderland
The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape blanketed in snow. Jared Verdi via Unsplash Nestled between the Andes Mountains ...
Lettuce from thin air: Chile’s fog catchers grow crops in the world’s driest desert where rain never falls
In Chile’s arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very ...
Chile’s Atacama Desert: Nature therapy in world’s driest landscape
What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think about nature,” asks Aurora Radich, a nature therapist in northern ...
The driest desert in the world was under snow
The Chilean Atacama Desert, which is considered the driest in the world, turned out to be snow-covered on Thursday, the ALMA ...
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Chile to crack down on textile waste dumped in Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert in Chile is home to a massive, and growing, mountain of discarded clothes and textiles. The items are remnants of secondhand clothes imported into the country to resell. To address ...