Learn more about the snowfall that shut down ALMA in the Atacama desert, and how researchers worry this could be a sign of ...
As the oldest and driest desert on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert is a treasure trove of discoveries for scientists and ...
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 ...
A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...
2004-02-01 04:00:00 PDT San Pedro de Atacama, Chile-- If I wanted to enter the crystal canyon, I was going to have to jump off the edge of a 300-foot-high dune. Jorge, our guide, threw himself down ...
A dusting of snow blanketed Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth. Scientists captured this unusual event ...
Chile’s Codelco and SQM seal landmark deal to boost lithium extraction in Chile's Atacama Desert, giving the government ...
Chile’s Codelco and SQM completed a landmark deal aimed at boosting lithium extraction from the country’s Atacama Desert, ...
Water may be an essential element of life, but to the scarce microbes that inhabit the Mars-like Atacama Desert in Chile, it's death. Studying the effects of once-in-a-century rainfall in the ...